Re: Timing documentation

[Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com>]

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Fyodor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:02:23PM -0500, Jon Kibler wrote:
> > I noticed a minor nmap man page issue for {min|max}-parallelism. The man
> > page suggest that the parameter given be a "time" value. This should be
> > a "number of probes" value.
>
> Hi Jon.  Can you elaborate on this?  When I read the man page section
> on --min (and --max) parallelism at
> http://nmap.org/book/man-performance.html, I'm not seeing this
> implication that they be given a time value.  Maybe you have a rather
> old version of Nmap?

- From nmap 5.10BETA2 man page (with sections cut out):

MAN PAGE: /usr/share/man/man1/nmap.1.gz


NMAP(1)        Nmap Reference Guide      NMAP(1)


<SNIP!>

 the rest of this manual. Some obscure options aren´t even included
 here.

      Nmap 5.10BETA2 ( http://nmap.org )
      Usage: nmap [Scan Type(s)] [Options] {target specification}
  TARGET SPECIFICATION:
      Can pass hostnames, IP addresses, networks, etc.
<SNIP!>
  TIMING AND PERFORMANCE:
       Options which take <time> are in milliseconds, unless you append
´s´
       (seconds), ´m´ (minutes), or ´h´ (hours) to the value (e.g.
30m).
        -T<0-5>: Set timing template (higher is faster)
        --min-hostgroup/max-hostgroup <size>: Parallel host scan group
sizes
        --min-parallelism/max-parallelism <time>: Probe parallelization
        --min-rtt-timeout/max-rtt-timeout/initial-rtt-timeout <time>:
Specifies
            probe round trip time.
<SNIP!>




I hope this helps!

Jon
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