Nmap Development: Re: [PATCH] new --min-retries options

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:14:10PM -0500, Jon Passki wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Today I was scanning using an unreliable network (shared wireless)  
> and had some packet loss. I had root access to the host I was  
> scanning, which allowed me to review the firewall logs and run a  
> tcpdump of the traffic.  There was 2% to 20% packet loss, depending  
> upon --max-parallelism and --min-parallelism settings.  The host had  
> two ports open and four ports closed, will all the others filtered.   
> Even with what seemed the default two retransmissions there still was  
> loss.
Did you get wrong results with the default Nmap timing behavior, or
had you also specified aggressive timing options such as
--min-parallelism when this happened?

Cheers,
-F


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