Re: Nmap discovery - specifying port ranges?

["Ventsislav Genchev" <vigour1 () gmail com>]

nmap -PS -p 10-20 IP

Thus you'll scan only the given port range 10-20.

Cheers,
Ventsi

On 9/17/07, spencerforhire <spencerforhire () gmail com> wrote:
> I've found Nmap ping sweeps (TCP SYN) very useful to discover machines
> that are up, but specifying port ranges doesn't seem to work.  When I
> try "-PS1-1024" I get:
>
> "Bogus character in supposed number-list string.  Example of proper
> form: "20,80,65532""
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to specify port ranges w/ the ping option?
>
> Also, anyone know what the status of the "top ports" project
> (http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2006/q3/0138.html) is?
>
> Thanks!