Re: iflist broken on OSX 10.4.11

[MadHat Unspecific <madhat () unspecific com>]

Fyodor wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:09:22PM -0600, MadHat Unspecific wrote:
>   
> > oops, sudo... nmap should check for root access before checking so the 
> > error does not appear.
> >
> > $ sudo nmap --iflist
> > Password:
> >     
>
> Hm, I'm not sure why this information should require root access.  I
> can do --iflist as an unprivileged user on my Linux box.  Can you try
> as an unprivileged user with Nmap 4.23RC2 and (if 4.23RC2 also shows
> the error) 4.20 on the same OS X box and see what happens?  That will
> tell us whether this is a new error or has long existed.
>   

$ ./nmap --iflist

Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-11-27 20:54 CST
getinterfaces: Failed to open ethernet interface (en1). 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!



$ sudo ./nmap --iflist
Password:

Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-11-27 20:55 CST
************************INTERFACES************************
DEV (SHORT) IP/MASK          TYPE     UP MAC
lo0 (lo0)   127.0.0.1/8      loopback up
en1 (en1)   192.168.1.189/24 ethernet up 00:1E:52:70:E2:65

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