can't find PPA for /dev/lan0 in HP-UX 1.11

[visolve_itrc]

i have installed Nessus 10.a on HP-UX 11.11.Nessusd server starts well.When I start the Nessus Client to scan a remote host,
it gives a empty report.

the only details in my logfile are

tail -f nessus.dump
can't find PPA for /dev/lan0

tail -f nessus.message
remote host is dead.

But I am able to ping my remote host from my machine.
How to solve this?

[Bharat Katkar · Accepted solution]

Hi,
What is your remote machine? HP?

Well you need to verify the remote machine if NIC connected to public network is lan0 or something else like lan1, lan2 etc.

Try doing telnet to remote machine (assuming it as HPUX box):

# lanscan
This returns all NIC installed on the System with NetInterface/PPA no e.g. lan0 means PPA 0.

# ifconfig lan0
to verify its IP and status.


Regards,

[Muthukumar_5]

Hai,

Can you able to get the PPA number's using lanscan -p.

Try to get the status of that lan with
lanadmin -g 0 ( PPA number of lan0 )

what is your remote host? Can you able to able login to that,if it is *unix environment using telnet?

Regards,
Muthukumar.

[visolve_itrc]

My remote machine is also a HP-UX 11.11.
I can ping it and also can able to telnet to it.

[Bharat Katkar]

Now then telnet to that remote machine:
# ifconfig lan0

What does that say?
Regards,

[visolve_itrc]

Yeah,i checked the network,it is working fine.I guess the poblem might be with the nessus Configuration.

[visolve_itrc]

Yes,I found the cause for the problem.It was because nessus have it own buildin libpcap(version- 0.4)that have this problem on HP-UX 11.11.So I need to configue again nessus libaries with the option "--enable-nessuspcap=no" to tell nessus Nessus to use an already installed latest libpcap (0.83) in my machine.

Regards,
Senthil Prabu.S