"dnet: Failed to open device" errors on AIX, as root

[Ben Lentz <ben.lentz () gmail com>]

>     Adding --data-length doesn't seem to make a difference.
>
>     $ sudo /opt/local/nmap/bin/nmap -sT --data-length 60 10.0.17.1
>
>     Starting Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-12-10 16:33 EST
>     WARNING:  eth_send of ARP packet returned -1 rather than expected 42
>     (errno=19: No such device)
>     WARNING:  eth_send of ARP packet returned -1 rather than expected 42
>     (errno=19: No such device)
>     Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -Pn
>     Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 0.46 seconds
>
> --data-length doesn't seem to be having an effect here. Try applying the
> very last hunk of http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q4/att-353/aix.patch.
>
> David Fifield

Sorry for the late reply. I applied the last hunk of patch
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q4/att-353/aix.patch

--- libdnet-stripped/src/eth-ndd.c      (revision 27119)
+++ libdnet-stripped/src/eth-ndd.c      (working copy)

now I get:

$ sudo ./nmap -sS optaixnim01

Starting Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-02-15 15:37 EST
WARNING:  eth_send of ARP packet returned -1 rather than expected 42
(errno=19: No such device)
WARNING:  eth_send of ARP packet returned -1 rather than expected 42
(errno=19: No such device)
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -Pn
Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 0.48 seconds

--send-ip still works fine.
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