Re: Wireless NMAP use on Verizon Wireless

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:14:56AM -0400, Capt Harry wrote:
> Apparently NMAP always assumes it has a hard wire connection. We use 
> > Verizon wireless and can not get beyond the socket. The error says it 
> > cant use sockets because they are not Ethernet connections, Is there 
> > something we are missing ?

Are you using Windows? If you want to do any raw-packet operations on a
non-Ethernet interface, you have to use another operating system.
Windows has built-in limitations that don't allow the raw socket
operations that Nmap needs. We only have a workaround for Ethernet
interfaces.

If you can't change operating systems, try using the --unprivileged
option. You will still be limited in the number of things you can do,
but you will be able to do basic scans.

David Fifield
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