Helping NMap Get Better OS Detection

I should qualify based on the previous comment, a "report back all" type
parameter for an IP address might be a nice parameter to gather detailed
info and get hardware/os signatures on equipment.

I don't think nmap was reporting MAC addresses and I figured it could do
that also.

>Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 21:23:53 -0500
>To: nmap-dev_at_insecure.org
>From: "Alan S. Jones" <asj_at_ipa.net>
>Subject: Helping NMap Get Better OS Detection
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>I was wondering does in NMap have a scan setting that says tell me all
>about this device from the perspective that if we captured that data we
>could send it in to be included in future NMap releases?
>
>For example today I had Nmap scan our Sharp copier/printer and it reported
>it as an Okidata printer. So a future version could say Sharp or Okidata
etc?
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>I have often wondered though as the scanning process gets better if you had
>two boxes like two printers that normally might be reported as the same if
>in the future they could be reported as being different if we could get
>enough details into NMap's database.
>
>On a side note will we see a final binary of NMap 3.51 etc anytime soon?
>
>Keep up the good work.
>
>Alan
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Alan S. Jones
asj_at_ipa.net
http://users.ipa.net/~asj
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