Re: nmap is missing /dev/bpf4

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:48:20PM +0100, Gergo Szakal wrote:
> [fw] ~# nmap -P0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-12-04 19:54 CET
> pcap_open_live(sk0, 100, 0, 2) FAILED. Reported error: (no devices 
> found) /dev/bpf4: No such file or directory.  Will wait 5 seconds then 
> retry.

Esp. if you are running dhcp, you can easily run out of the default 4 BPF
interfaces. Make some more in /dev using ./MAKEDEV bpfX

Joerg