Security Basics: SYN SCAN

["Anirudhya Mitra" <quartz_blue () HotPOP com>]

Sorry,
Forgot to tell you about my OS..
Yes, It is WinXP but am not using SP2.

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> Dear List,
> ( I really do not know if this is the right place to ask >this question..
so
> please pardon me, if I am wrong )
> I am looking for any available TUTORIAL, SOURCE >CODE (and not binary) etc.
> in the internet that can do a SYN scanning thru a >WindowsXP box using the
> Winsock 2 Socket API implementation (ie, using >SOCK_RAW)
> I have searched Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Askjeeves >etc. but did not find
a
> suitable one (or whatever I found failed to run under >WinXP box). I have
> Winsock 1.1 programming experience in Win98 along >with Raw Socket
experience
> in Linux.
> I have seen Nmap coding.. but as Nmap is supposed >to do a lot of things,
and
> not only syn scan, the code is a bit lenthy. More over >it uses WinPcap (
> Windows Packet Capture Architecture ) which I do >NOT want to use. I want
to
> implement only Raw Sockets.
> I have been using RedHat for the past 4 years, and I >recently converted to
> WinXP professional for a particular client side >requirement. That is, my
> Windows knowledge is not very good (only some >common Windows programming
> experience).
> Thanking you in anticipation,
> Anirudhya Mitra.