On Mon, 03 Jun 2002, Michael Starr wrote:
> If all you're looking for is which hosts are up, you could try using
> hping instead of nmap to do the initial scan -- then you could scan
> only hosts that you know are there with Nmap. I believe that hping
> (haven't used it for a while, so check me on this) has an option to
> use protocols other than icmp, so it can detect hosts that drop echo-
Of course hping can do that :) Indeed it's a pretty effective
scanner: for example
#hping -S -p ++7 --fast <host>
to do a SYN scan
(not to say hping is more effective than nmap, in fact they are very
complementary tools).
Regards,
- yann.
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Received on Jun 03 2002
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