Thanks everyone for the responses. Using Fusion5 and nmap6.25 but from the responses appears to just be a limitation of scanning virtual interfaces w/OSX.
Mike Sent from my Windows Phone ------------------------------ From: Matt Summers <[email protected]> Sent: 2/28/2013 9:34 To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] dnet: Failed to open device vmnet8 @Chris - You can nmap the vnmnet interfaces from your host to your guest. Even though this is not a real interface. I did a quick test on Fusion 4.1.4 with and nmap 5: nmap specific ports and works fine nmap -O -F -Pn and it gives me "Warning: Unable to open interface vmnet8 -- skipping it." but completes scan but does not return the OS On Thu 28/02/13 12:58 , Carlos Perez [email protected] sent: Yep it is a known problem, only full tcp scans work anything else fails when it host to VM Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Chris Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: Vmnet interfaces aren't real devices so you can't use nmap on them. Chris Campbell ------------------------ 07742123443 On 28 Feb 2013, at 06:02, Mike Perez <[email protected]> wrote: I tried searching the net and nmap's forums, but I'm running nmap under OSX and using Fusion and receive trying to scan: new-host:~ oia$ sudo nmap -O -F 192.168.210.153/24 Starting Nmap 6.25 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-02-28 00:22 EST dnet: Failed to open device vmnet8 QUITTING! new-host:~ oia$ Anyone seen this before? Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom <<a href=>"> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com <<a href=>">http://pauldotcom.com
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