Re: Call for testers: Nping 0.1BETA1 Released.

[Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>]

On 08/07/2009 10:55 AM, Luis M. wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> Nping behaves in a slightly different way than Nmap. If you look at the
> man page you'll see that there are 7 levels of verbosity. However, the
> initial level is level 4 so if you specify -vN where N<4 you are
> actually telling Nping to display less information. Here is a quick ref
> guide:
>
> Level 0: No output
> Level 1: Fatal error messages
> Level 2: Warnings and recoverable errors
> Level 3: Normal but does not display sent/recv packets, just stats, etc.
> Level 4: Display sent/recv packets and stats.
> Level 5: Display detailed packet info.
> Level 6: Display very detailed packet info.
>
> So to sum up: every instance of -v increments verbosity level by one
> (starting from level 4). -vN sets verbosity level N.
>
> Luis.

It may just be me, but I think this is confusing. I'd suggest starting 
off with a verbosity of 0, then using -q to make it go down and to -v to 
make it go up. So you can use -q3 to make it super quiet, and -v3 to 
make it super verbose.

Ron

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Ron Bowes
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