nmap as user works, root doesn't

[Mel Flynn]

On Thursday 26 March 2009 03:39:15 Jimmie James wrote:
> Can anyone make sense of this?
> Straight DSL connection, no router.
> using -e [any interface] results in the same errors
>
> nmap-4.76
>
> As root:
> #nmap -v -v google.ca
>
> Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-03-25 22:35 EDT
> Warning: Hostname google.ca resolves to 3 IPs. Using 64.233.161.104.
> WARNING: Unable to find appropriate interface for system route to
> 64.230.197.58
> nexthost: failed to determine route to 64.233.161.104
> QUITTING!

Search google for pppoe+nnmap. Haven't seen a solution for this on any of my 
gateways, so I'm simply using a machine behind it to do my bidding.
-- 
Mel