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Re: XPSP2 compatability


From: Steve Friedl <steve () unixwiz net>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:21:40 -0700

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 06:25:09AM -0400, Terry Dunlap wrote:
I read a post by Fyodor
(http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-hackers/2004/Jul-Sep/0002.html) that
this may be related to the fact that MS removed the TCP raw sockets in
SP2.

Not quite: MS removed *send* from raw sockets; receive (ala sniffers)
should be ok.

Steve

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