On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Thomas Reinke wrote: > 2) Fake nmap progress bar. I know this has been much discussed. > How bout the following solution: break the nmap scan into > N distinct groups, and report on the progress of each group. > For example, if each group is no larger than 1024 ports, then > even on a wacky firewall firewall on a low speed connection > where things are not responding properly, it will still take no > more than a few minutes for a single group. This will allow > for pretty decent progress reporting.
If you are so desperate to get a real progress bar with nmap, you should probably hack nmap itself to provide feedback about its work. I think Fyodor would be happy to accept a patch implementing such a feature. --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
