Re: Nping development

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:57:14AM +0100, Henri Doreau wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I've opened a project on sourceforge under the
> name of APing2. There is nothing really interesting yet but I hope
> that it will reach the required quality level soon.
> I would have opinions about some options. hping2 has "modes" you can
> call typing -1, -2...
> But nmap and ncat use -6 to enable ipv6, that might be confusing. What
> would you prefer : give priority to nmap like options (and rename the
> original hping2 modes) or hping2 ones (and rename the ipv6 flag), in
> this case I mean.

I didn't have the idea for Nping so I can't answer specific questions
about requirements. I see at http://nmap.org/SoC/Ncat.html that "Some
flags may use the Nmap-style option name rather than hping-style."
You'll have to wait to see what others have to say on this one.

David Fifield

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