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Re: help dhcp-discover.nse


From: Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:27:21 -0500

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 20:12:56 +0000 Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>
wrote:
Norris,

The dhcp-discover script is a host script.  Nmap doesn't really have
the notion of a "network script".  Nmap needs to detect UDP port 67
open (or open|filtered) in order to use the script.

I was going to suggest scanning the broadcast address but Nmap won't
know the nexthop MAC is supposed to be ffff.ffff.ffff

So I tried scanning the router which is a DHCP helper/relay but I got:

NSE: dhcp-discover against 132.239.181.1:67 threw an error!
./scripts/dhcp-discover.nse:557: variable 'value' is not declared
stack traceback:
      [C]: in function 'error'
      ./nselib/strict.lua:68: in function <./nselib/strict.lua:59>
      ./scripts/dhcp-discover.nse:557: in function 'dhcp_parse'
      ./scripts/dhcp-discover.nse:695: in function 'go'
      ./scripts/dhcp-discover.nse:710: in function
<./scripts/dhcp-discover.nse:709> (tail call): ?

So I think this script needs a bit of work.

Assuming everything was working, you'd do something like:

$ sudo ./nmap -sU -p 67 -v -d -PN --script=dhcp-discover <target(s)>

Brandon
Brandon is correct, that's the command you would use. I've requested having one-time scripts that do broadcasts in the 
past, and I think it's made its way into the TODO list, but we don't have it yet. So dhcp-discover has to be against a 
specific host. 

As for it not working, thanks for the report! I don't have a dhcp server at work to test against, but I'll figure out 
what's going on as soon as I get home. 

-- 
Ron Bowes
http://www.skullsecurity.org
http://www.twitter.com/iagox86

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