Re: Excessive traffic in -PS/PA/PU ping scans

["Hans Nilsson" <hasse_gg () ftml net>]

If you want to force Nmap to use the ping option you select, like -PS,
instead of overriding it with an ARP-ping you can do:
sudo nmap -sP -PS443 --send-ip 192.168.1.1


On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:00:33 -0700, "cybernmd" <cybernmd () gmail com>
said:
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Good thing I've asked, because I have wrongfully assumed that -P[SAU]
> argument can stand by itself when in reality it is just a modifier to an
> already existing scan. 
>
> So nmap was doing exactly what I've asked it to do: perform default scan
> with SYN ping to discover hosts and of course it wasn't doing SYN ping
> for local hosts when it could just do ARP ping thus ignoring the port in
> -PS443 argument ... silly me =)
>
> So just like Eddie said what i really wanted was indeed:
>  sudo nmap -sP -PS443 192.168.1.1
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -Peter
>
>
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