Re: top-ports range

[Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi>]

Ok. So two distinct feature requests. 1) union between -p and
--top-ports, and 2) range support for --top-ports. Would one of the
GSoC folks be willing to look at one or the other? This is not a high
priority, but the tasks might not be that hard either.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:01 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:56:32AM +0300, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> > Maybe I could do "-p 80 --top-ports 11-20" if I knew port 80 was open.
> > However I guess port 80 might accidentally be scanned last in which
> > case it does not help.
>
> There's special logic that cheats and puts common ports like 80 at the
> front of the list (random_port_cheat in portlist.cc). But unfortunately
> it still won't work because you can't use -p and --top-ports together.
> (I think you should be able to, and it should take the union.)
>
> David Fifield
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