Nmap Development: Re: Excessive traffic in -PS/PA/PU ping scans

[Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:16:44 -0700
cybernmd <cybernmd () gmail com> wrote:

> I have noticed the following when performing SYN, ACK, and UDP pings:
...snip...
> Command:
>  sudo nmap -PS443 192.168.1.1
You are scanning 192.168.1.1 which leads me to believe the scanning machine
is directly connected to the same layer 2 network segment.  Nmap will use
ARP to determine if the host is up and shouldn't need to do any additional
discovery.  Are you able to reproduce your results on targets separated by
L2 boundaries?

Brandon


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Brandon Enright
Network Security Analyst
UCSD ACS/Network Operations
bmenrigh () ucsd edu

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