Michael Wiegand wrote:
> Am Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010 13:05:56 schrieb Thomas Reinke:
>> Just wanted to confirm - provisioning of netmask is optional for a
>> network level scan?
>
> No, at least in the current version it is mandatory to supply a netmask. Of
> course future versions could try to figured that out for themselves, if this
> is wanted.
That might be a bit of a problem. Most use cases we see do NOT map to a
complete network. Customers will often
a) leave off broadcast addresses
b) have all of a class C _except_ for a router provided by an ISP
c) want to audit part of a network. (I.e. they will own the whole
network but not want to audit parts of it for a given reason)
I think forcing things to be a full /N is somewhat of an artificial
use case limitation that I would encourage be revisited.
Thomas
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