Re: Build Nmap-5.00 without sctp support

[Pawlowski Marcin Piotr <pawlowski.mp () gmail com>]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:26:00 +0200
Giovanni Bechis <bigionews () snb it> wrote:

> David Fifield wrote:
> > Hello. There should be no need to port Nmap to OpenBSD. If it takes
> > special work to make it compile or run then it's a bug, so please
> > submit a patch so that we can integrate it with the mainline code.
> We added a sctp.h file to the source to let nmap build (otherwise
> nmap cannot find a few structs)

And we needed to remove sctp from pcap filter (scan-engine) cause we
don't have it in the library (yet?).

> > If Nmap doesn't produce any output, that doesn't necessarily mean
> > that SCTP is broken. It has been reported that a lot of networking
> > devices like NAT don't properly handle SCTP. Use the --packet-trace
> > option to see if the packets are being sent.
> The packets are being sent but I see no output (I am behind nat).
> A little problem which arise is that man pages are not compatible
> with our man(1), maybe because of something similar to that: 
> (http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q3/0249.html).
> We start patching man pages but the result is a huge diff.
> When we will have a final version of the diff we will submit the 
> "effort" to the nmap's mailing list.

Yes, still working on that, there must be simple and clean way to do
this ;-)

Cheers,
pmp

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