Has anyone ever seen this particular problem before with nmap? It seems to be completely avoiding my parameter -e en1 so that it will use a BPF capable device on the network I want to scan. It is instead defaulting to interface vmnet8:
Desktop sf$ sudo nmap -e en1 -v -sS 192.168.0.0/16
Password:
Starting Nmap 4.20 (
http://insecure.org ) at 2008-03-19 13:39 EDT
getinterfaces: Failed to open ethernet interface (vmnet8). A possible cause on BSD operating systems is running out of BPF devices (see
http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2006/Jan-Mar/0014.html).
QUITTING!
Thanks.
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