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Re: Win XP SP2 problem (2)


From: R D Smith <smith1rd () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:47:46 -0400

On or about 6:38 on Thursday, 27 October 2005, someone purporting to be Vania Martino Toma <b4yt1c0l () alice it>, 
wrote something to the effect of:

| Hi,
| i have tried to install nmap on a Windows XP SP2
| machine. I used nmap 3.93-win32 (winpcap 3.1). The
| error message i got is below:
| 
| 
| Starting nmap 3.93 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap ) at 2005-10-25 10:23
| ora lega
| le Europa occidentale
| dnet: Failed to open device eth0
| QUITTING!
| 
<snip>

It looks like nmap is trying to use the “eth0” interface.  That interface doesn’t exist in Windows.  

Can you send the command line options that you used when you got the error?

-- --
R D Smith
echo "nhdoc,m_;bh\dg)^jh" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)+5)/ge'ac


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