On Mon, 03 Jun 2002, Michael Starr wrote: > If all you're looking for is which hosts are up, you could try using > hping instead of nmap to do the initial scan -- then you could scan > only hosts that you know are there with Nmap. I believe that hping > (haven't used it for a while, so check me on this) has an option to > use protocols other than icmp, so it can detect hosts that drop echo-
Of course hping can do that :) Indeed it's a pretty effective scanner: for example #hping -S -p ++7 --fast <host> to do a SYN scan (not to say hping is more effective than nmap, in fact they are very complementary tools). Regards, - yann. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- HSC -*- http://www.hsc.fr/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
