Re: nmap/vmware osx bug

[Garrett Reid <garrett.reid () gmail com>]

I'm running nmap under OSX (the system that just had VMWare installed  
on it).

On Apr 29, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Sina Bahram wrote:

> Are you running nmap under vmware?
>
> Or are you speaking of running it on the system that has vmware  
> installed on
> it?
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
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> On Behalf Of Garrett Reid
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:19 PM
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> Cc: Garrett Reid
> Subject: nmap/vmware osx bug
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to report this, so  
> apologies in
> advance if it isn't.
>
> For some reason, after installing VMWare Fusion Beta3 (the current  
> beta for
> mac users), nmap will not run as root:
> >  garrett$ sudo nmap localhost
> > Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-04-29 19:06 MDT
> > getinterfaces: Failed to open ethernet interface (vmnet8). A possible
> > cause on BSD operating systems is running out of BPF devices (see
> > http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2006/Jan-Mar/
> > 0014.html).
> > QUITTING!
>
> However, if run as a non-root user, it works fine:
> > garrett$ nmap localhost
> > Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-04-29 19:16 MDT
> > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1)
>
> I'm not sure if this is nmap using the wrong interface, or vmware  
> breaking
> raw sockets or just what is going on, so I've posted this bug to both
> parties. However, since this is a mailing-list, I'll hopefully be  
> getting
> some feedback from here =)
>
> -Garrett
>
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