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Re: [NSE] Proposal for adding a target.add_host() function
From: Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 19:48:30 -0400
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz () opendz org> wrote:
On 2011-05-27 17:52:50 +0200, Gorjan Petrovski wrote:Hi,Hi Gorjan,It would be really great if we could add a whole host structure as a target in NSE through the target library. Recently I needed such an option specifically for passing the MAC address to another script, but it should benefit script testing purposes too. David mentioned that it would be useful for linking IPv4 and IPv6 addresses too in a recent meeting.I can also think of the ports, services that will be discovered during a prerule scan (broadcast scripts), this list can be used to populate the different fields of the host Target structure like the 'PostList'.
The problem is the mac_addr field cannot be determined by scanning the host. The mac address is discovered by scanning a router which returns the IP and mac address of various interfaces. Contrast this with ports which can be scanned after the target is added. Additionally, it may not be desirable to set the port state of a host we add since we may not want to scan those ports at all (in the script scan stage). -- - Patrick Donnelly _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- [NSE] Proposal for adding a target.add_host() function Gorjan Petrovski (May 27)
- Re: [NSE] Proposal for adding a target.add_host() function Djalal Harouni (May 31)
- Re: [NSE] Proposal for adding a target.add_host() function Patrick Donnelly (May 31)
- Re: [NSE] Proposal for adding a target.add_host() function Djalal Harouni (May 31)