Re: --scan_delay weirdness (Increasing send delay from 3000 to 1000)

[Martin Mačok <martin.macok () underground cz>]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 05:14:34PM -0700, Fyodor wrote:

> > Note the last line - it is _increasing_ from 3000 to 1000, which
> > is probably wrong.
>
> Thanks for the report.  I have put in a fix for the next version of
> Nmap.  Do you know why so many packets were being dropped, even with
> Nmap sending just one probe every 3 secodns?

I'm not sure (zero-knowledge penetration test), but from the outside
it looks like there is a very low rate-limit on SYN packets (which is
silly since the limit is not per IP).

Martin Mačok
IT Security Consultant

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