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Re: Probes (TCP, ICMP and UDP)


From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:00:34 -0700

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:33:53PM -0500, Srikanth Dabbiru wrote:
Just had to clear out my confusion here:

The article states there are 15 probes sent, but, when I count the number of
probes they come to 16 including the UDP probe.
http://nmap.org/book/osdetect-methods.html

Is ICMP dual-probe (IE) considered to be a single probe ?

Can you write back with a numbered list of probes? Just so we can see
how you're counting. It's possible there's a mistake in the
documentation.

David Fifield

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