nmap --iflist fails when firewire network interface exists

[thanos z <athanasios.zorbas () gmail com>]

Hi, I would like to report that nmap cannot find any interfaces and routes
when a firewire network interface exists:

[than@althaia ~]$ nmap --iflist

Starting Nmap 6.45 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-06-18 18:10 EEST
************************INTERFACES************************
DEV  (SHORT) IP/MASK                     TYPE     UP MTU   MAC
p3p1 (p3p1)  10.11.13.12/16              ethernet up 1500  00:1E:68:7C:CF:10
p3p1 (p3p1)  fe80::21e:68ff:fe7c:cf10/64 ethernet up 1500  00:1E:68:7C:CF:10
lo   (lo)    127.0.0.1/8                 loopback up 65536
lo   (lo)    ::1/128                     loopback up 65536

**************************ROUTES**************************
DST/MASK                     DEV  METRIC GATEWAY
10.11.0.0/16                 p3p1 0
0.0.0.0/0                    p3p1 1024   10.11.12.1
::1/128                      lo   0
fe80::21e:68ff:fe7c:cf10/128 lo   0
ff02::2/128                  p3p1 0
::1/128                      lo   256
fe80::/64                    p3p1 256
ff00::/8                     p3p1 256

[than@althaia ~]$ sudo modprobe firewire-net
[sudo] password for than:



[than@althaia ~]$ ip l
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode
DEFAULT group default
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: p3p1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state
UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1e:68:7c:cf:10 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
12: firewire0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode
DEFAULT group default qlen 20
    link/ieee1394 00:24:1b:00:8f:e6:03:01:0a:02:80:00:00:00:00:00 brd
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff



[than@althaia ~]$ nmap --iflist

Starting Nmap 6.45 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-06-18 18:10 EEST
INTERFACES: NONE FOUND(!)
ROUTES: NONE FOUND(!)
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