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

[Jon Passki <jon.passki () hursk com>]

On Jul 6, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Fyodor wrote:

> 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?
The latter.  With one host,  --min-parallelism 40, and -T4 as the  
default.  I can retry w/ default settings on the host when I'm back  
at the location to see if there's any difference.

Jon



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