namp usage ? (bug?)

Olaf Hoyer ohoyer at ohoyer.de
Tue Oct 5 11:14:56 PDT 2004


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, stan wrote:

> I'm trying to use nmap to check for all hosts that are up on a subnet. I'm
> using this syntax:
>
>
> nmap -sP 170.85.113.0/25
>
> Bit, I'm getting the follwing error messge;
>
> Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-10-05 07:22 EDT
> sendto in send_ip_raw: sendto(4, packet, 28, 0, 170.85.113.0, 16) => Can't
> assign requested addres
>
> Here's the approriate NIC config:
>
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 		 inet 170.85.113.56 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 170.85.113.127
> 		 ether 00:01:fa:ff:fa:bc
> 		 media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active
>
> Am I using this incorectly? Yes I'm loged in as root, when I try this. I't
> on FreeBSD STABLE built a couple of weeks ago.


Well, I had this with nmap 3.50, too. Upgrading to a later version of 
nmap solved that problem. I am running nmap 3.70.

HTH
Olaf

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