Number of retransmissions

[magnus () linuxtag org (Nils Magnus)]

Hi,

my main field of action is the verification of internal firewall rule
sets and most of the time I am very close to the actual equipment (as
opposed to doing scans over the Internet).

Monitoring tiresome packets being dropped by the firewall (the it's
supposed to be), I wonder if I could restrict the number of
retransmissions for an -sS or -sT? 

What is the default for the number of retransmissions? What do think
about an option for restriction of this value?

Regards,

Nils Magnus
Program-Chair LinuxTag 2004 Free Conference Program

LinuxTag 2004: Where .com meets .org - magnus () linuxtag org

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