Re: Follow up to NMAP on Snow Leopard with VMWARE Fusion installed

["James R. Marcus" <jmarcus () edhance com>]

Interesting note about VMWARE Fusion and NMAP here: 
http://dcortesi.com/2007/05/14/nmap-getinterfaces-failure-on-os-x-with-vmware-installed/

James
On Sep 18, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Walt Scrivens wrote:

> I have a similar configuration - Snow Leopard 10.6.1 with VMWare
> Fusion 2.0.5 and nmap 5.05BETA1, yesterday's build.
> I'm getting similar results - it seems to balk at running as root.  it
> just lists the 2 vmnet interfaces and stops:
>
> ========================
> TestComputer:~ walts$ sudo nmap 192.168.1.1
>
> Starting Nmap 5.05BETA1 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-09-18 13:23 EDT
> Warning: Unable to open interface vmnet8 -- skipping it.
> Warning: Unable to open interface vmnet1 -- skipping it.
>
> ========================
> (Control-C after a few minutes)
>
> ========================
>
> TestComputer:~ walts$ nmap 192.168.1.1
>
> Starting Nmap 5.05BETA1 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-09-18 13:24 EDT
> Interesting ports on 192.168.1.1:
> Not shown: 997 closed ports
> PORT   STATE SERVICE
> 23/tcp open  telnet
> 53/tcp open  domain
> 80/tcp open  http
>
> Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.26 seconds
> ========================
>
> I ran Wireshark while doing this.  The first (sudo) run produced no
> packets at all; the second generated over 2,000 packets
>
> I don't know if VMWare is having an impact - it has always complained
> about the vmnet interfaces.
>
> I wish I knew more about what's happening / supposed to happen, so I
> could contribute something to the discussion.  I'm very happy to run
> lots of tests if someone will tell me what to do!
>
> Walt
>
> On Sep 18, 2009, at 9:48 AM, James R. Marcus wrote:
>
> > Should I post this some where else?
> >
> > I have been reading the thread titled:  Trying out nmap 5 with snow
> > leopard - public release
> >
> > I have updated nmap with the latest build. Nmap 5.05BETA1
> [SNIP]

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