Re: NMAP Issue with Ping

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:18:03AM -0800, Louay Saleh wrote:
> Dear David,
>  
> Sorry for being late in replying. I was very busy.
>  
> I tried the packet trace option and it showed that the four probes are
> being used, but again I got the message that the host seems down! When
> I disabled the firewall and tried the same command, the scan was able
> to scan all the ports on the IP address and it seemed working fine.
>  
> My firewall is BitDefender 2010.
>  
> Do you have any clue of what is happening? 

Maybe the firewall has a built-in rule to allow packets from ping.exe?
That's my best guess. Maybe there's a way to add a rule for nmap.exe.

David Fifield
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