Re: Weird Nmap behaviour on Windows (Latest SVN version)

["Luis MartinGarcia." <luis.mgarc () gmail com>]

On 07/07/2010 05:09 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 04:14:21PM +0200, Luis MartinGarcia. wrote:
>   
> > > I've found some weird Nmap behavior on Windows 7. Apparently Nmap
> > > (also Nping) is not able to open my network interface. It says that is
> > > unable to open "eth14". I've used the latest SVN version (r18639).
> > > However, I can confirm that the problem must have been introduced
> > > before the nmap-dedup branch merge, because I was able to reproduce it
> > > with earlier revisions. Here's the list of versions I've tested:
> > >
> > > - Current SVN version: Does not work. (compiled with VS 2008) 
> > > - Nmap 5.30BETA1: Works fine (downloaded from insecure.org and installed)
> > > - Nmap 5.10BETA1: Works fine (the one I had installed originally)
> >     
> Try to find the find the exact revision where this started working. This
> sounds like a lot of work but it probably only takes half an hour if you
> use a binary search. I recommend first testing r16969; that was just
> before a big change to interfaces and routing. nmap-dedup was merged in
> r17962, and we know that it is broken in that revision. That means there
> are only about 1000 revisions to binary search.
>
> Start with
>
> svn update -r 16969 --ignore-externals . nsock nbase zenmap ncat nping
>
> If that revision shows the problem, you'll have to go further back. (But
> no further than 5.10BETA1, which was r16181.) If it doesn't have the
> problem, I would next try
>
> svn update -r 16970 --ignore-externals . nsock nbase zenmap ncat nping
>
> because that's the most likely candidate. Then continue the binary
> search with 
>
> svn update -r 17500 --ignore-externals . nsock nbase zenmap ncat nping
>
> and so on.
>   

No problem. I'll let you know when I find the exact revision.

Luis MartinGarcia.

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