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Re: [nmap-svn] r6963 - nmap-exp/david/nmap-fixed-rate
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:47:46 -0600
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:24:07AM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fyodor wrote: | On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:28:31AM +0000, Brandon Enright wrote: |> I look forward to the end-result, sometime sending at N pps is exactly |> what I want Nmap to do. | | Instead of offering just a fixed packet send rate (which I think is | what Scanrand and Unicornscan do), I'm starting to think we should | allow you to set a minimum and/or maximum packet send rate. If you | are trying to speed Nmap up, you would set a minimum rate which would | override Nmap's normal congestion control algorithms if they would | otherwise slow Nmap below that rate. But this would still allow Nmap | to ramp up to faster rates if you are scanning an unfirewalled | localhost or the like. | I like this minimum rate idea more than the fixed rate. Also (instead of replying to a different nmap-svn email): I think the option would be more flexible if instead of --rate <num> (which is per-second) like in r6962 of David's branch, it can be given a modifier like "2/s" for 2 per-second, "150/m" for 150 per-minute, etc. Or maybe it should default to per-second.
I'm going to ask for ideas about the command-line interface once the infrastructure is in place. Another idea I had is specifying a certain byte or bit rate. So yeah, nobody get too attached to the current option because I'm just using it for experimentation. David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- Re: [nmap-svn] r6963 - nmap-exp/david/nmap-fixed-rate Brandon Enright (Mar 21)
- Re: [nmap-svn] r6963 - nmap-exp/david/nmap-fixed-rate Fyodor (Mar 21)
- Re: [nmap-svn] r6963 - nmap-exp/david/nmap-fixed-rate Kris Katterjohn (Mar 21)
- Re: [nmap-svn] r6963 - nmap-exp/david/nmap-fixed-rate David Fifield (Mar 22)
- Re: [nmap-svn] r6963 - nmap-exp/david/nmap-fixed-rate David Fifield (Mar 22)
- Re: [nmap-svn] r6963 - nmap-exp/david/nmap-fixed-rate Kris Katterjohn (Mar 21)
- Re: [nmap-svn] r6963 - nmap-exp/david/nmap-fixed-rate Fyodor (Mar 21)