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OSX & FreeBSD ARP scan problem
From: Jon Schipp <jonschipp () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:48:04 -0500
I apologize if this mail message is not appropriate for this list. Are there known issues when doing ARP based host discovery from FreeBSD and/or OSX systems? When I'm scanning my local network(targets on same segment), on Linux, nmap defaults to the ARP scan like normal for determining whether a host is alive. However, when I use FreeBSD or OSX 10.6 (only hosts I've tried) on the same network, it skips the ARP scan and jumps into the normal Ping scan. When I specify -PR for host discovery Nmap immediately reports that all hosts are down without sending out any traffic. I've verified all output with --reason, --packet-trace, and with tcpdump. FYI: Both systems have multiple NIC's, I've tried setting the NIC with -e <interface> and it still does the same thing. I'm using 5.51 on FreeBSD and on OSX. I was just curious to whether this was some BSD-"like" implementation issue or maybe I'm just doin' it wrong. Thanks Jon _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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