nmap quits after 30 hosts when -min-parallelism 300 is used

[Richard van den Berg <richard.vandenberg () ins com>]

I was running nmap 4.00 with these options:
nmap -sS -P0 -r -n -T4 --max-rtt-timeout 300 --min-rtt-timeout 50 
--initial-rtt-timeout 250 --min-parallelism 300 -A -vv -p- -oA foo hosts
After finishing the first group of 30 hosts, nmap quits with saying:

box(300, 100, 15) called (min,max,num)
QUITTING!

My concern about this is 2 fold:

1) How can max-parallelism become lower than min-parallelism? There is a 
check for this in box(), hence fatal() is called.
2) Why don't my foo.nmap and foo.gnmap files contain the results of the 
scans for the first 30 hosts?

I did not have a chance to test whether setting --min-parallelism 300 as 
well does not trigger this behavior.

Sincerely,

-- 
Richard van den Berg
Consultant, INS

E-mail: richard.vandenberg () ins com
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