Re: ERROR ON WINDOWS PLATEFORM

[Dozzyjean Dozie <dozzyjean () gmail com>]

Hello sir, my name is Dozzyjean Dozie i am from Nigeria, i am written to you
> to inform you about the error message i have been receive n from Nmap, each
> time i try to run it i always get these error code on my screen on window
> platform, so i will be interested to know where to download the stable
> version for windows or ho to correct theses and stop these message from
> displaying on my cmd.
>
>
> ERRORS:
>
>
> D:\Documents and Settings\dozzyjean () gaster net>nmap -sS -A -p- -O -v
> victim.com
>
>
> Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-11-25 15:13 W. Central
> Africa Sta
> ndard Time
> NSE: Loaded 30 scripts for scanning.
> Initiating Ping Scan at 15:13
> WARNING: Using raw sockets because ppp0 is not an ethernet device. This
> probably
>  won't work on Windows.
>
> Scanning 127.0.0.1 [4 ports]
> pcap_open_live(ppp0, 100, 0, 2) FAILED. Reported error: Error opening
> adapter: T
> he system cannot find the device specified. (20).  Will wait 5 seconds then
> retr
> y.
> pcap_open_live(ppp0, 100, 0, 2) FAILED. Reported error: Error opening
> adapter: T
> he system cannot find the device specified. (20).  Will wait 25 seconds
> then ret
> ry.
> Call to pcap_open_live(ppp0, 100, 0, 2) failed three times. Reported error:
> Erro
> r opening adapter: The system cannot find the device specified. (20)
> There are several possible reasons for this, depending on your operating
> system:
>
> LINUX: If you are getting Socket type not supported, try modprobe af_packet
> or r
> ecompile your kernel with SOCK_PACKET enabled.
>
> *BSD:  If you are getting device not configured, you need to recompile your
> kern
> el with Berkeley Packet Filter support.  If you are getting No such file or
> dire
> ctory, try creating the device (eg cd /dev; MAKEDEV <device>; or use
> mknod).
>
> *WINDOWS:  Nmap only supports ethernet interfaces on Windows for most
> operations
>  because Microsoft disabled raw sockets as of Windows XP SP2.  Depending on
> the
> reason for this error, it is possible that the --unprivileged command-line
> argum
> ent will help.
>
> SOLARIS:  If you are trying to scan localhost or the address of an
> interface and
>  are getting '/dev/lo0: No such file or directory' or 'lo0: No DLPI device
> found
> ', complain to Sun.  I don't think Solaris can support advanced localhost
> scans.
>   You can probably use "-PN -sT localhost" though.
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