Re: dnet: Failed to open device vmnet8

[Chris Campbell <chris () ctcampbell com>]

Does that work for a subnet scan or are you using a single IP? I suspect there is some internal routing at play here 
and for your command the real NIC is being used rather than nmap directly sourcing traffic from the vmnet interface. 

On 28 Feb 2013, at 13:31, Matt Summers <matt () fireantsecurity co uk> wrote:

> @Chris - You can nmap the vnmnet interfaces from your host to your guest. Even though this is not a real interface.
>
> I did a quick test on Fusion 4.1.4 with and nmap 5:
>
> nmap specific ports and works fine
> nmap -O -F -Pn and it gives me "Warning: Unable to open interface vmnet8 -- skipping it." but completes scan but does 
> not return the OS
>
>
>
>
> On Thu 28/02/13 12:58 , Carlos Perez carlos_perez () darkoperator com sent:
> Yep it is a known problem, only full tcp scans work anything else fails when it host to VM 
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 28, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Chris Campbell <chris () ctcampbell com> wrote:
>
> > Vmnet interfaces aren't real devices so you can't use nmap on them. 
> >
> > Chris Campbell
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> > On 28 Feb 2013, at 06:02, Mike Perez <mike () pauldotcom com> wrote:
> >
> > > I tried searching the net and nmap's forums, but I'm running nmap under OSX and using Fusion and receive trying to 
> > > scan:
> > >
> > > new-host:~ oia$ sudo nmap -O -F 192.168.210.153/24
> > >
> > > Starting Nmap 6.25 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-02-28 00:22 EST
> > > dnet: Failed to open device vmnet8
> > > QUITTING!
> > > new-host:~ oia$ 
> > >
> > > Anyone seen this before?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
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