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Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:02:56 -0700
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:16:29PM -0000, Rob Nicholls wrote:
Thanks for your testing. A couple of hosts out of 127 is not so bad considering what we had been seeing: only one out of 20 or 30 hosts returning useful results.I'm afraid there were only 7 live hosts in that range, one of which was mine, so I typically saw 4 "good" and 2 "bad" fingerprints. I probably won't get a chance to do more testing until sometime tomorrow, but will try it using 4.76, r11420 and r11421 to see if there are any differences between them. The tests appeared to be quite repeatable, and I didn't notice much of a difference when I ran one using 4.76. I'll also try a few tweaks to the commandline options to see what differences that makes.
When you're doing that please try --max-hostgroup 10 and --max-parallelism 10 Try different numbers in place of 10 until you get good results. We may have to reduce the speed of OS scanning and we'll need an idea of how much to reduce it. David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines, (continued)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines David Fifield (Dec 17)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines Michael Head (Dec 17)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines David Fifield (Dec 17)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines Michael Head (Dec 18)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines David Fifield (Dec 17)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines Rob Nicholls (Dec 18)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines David Fifield (Dec 18)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines Rob Nicholls (Dec 18)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines Brandon Enright (Dec 18)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines David Fifield (Dec 18)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines Brandon Enright (Dec 18)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines David Fifield (Dec 18)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines Michael Head (Dec 18)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality when scanning a large number of machines Brandon Enright (Dec 18)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality -- solved in r11437 Rob Nicholls (Dec 19)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality -- solved in r11437 Rob Nicholls (Dec 20)
- Re: OS fingerprint extraction quality -- solved in r11437 Michael Head (Dec 19)