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Re: targets-sniffer not using promiscuous mode?


From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:10:35 -0800

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 05:35:40PM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
Hi,

Why does targets-sniffer.nse not use promiscuous mode? As it is, it only
finds addresses that communicate with the scanning host, which is not
that useful. Why don't we change false to true here?

sock:pcap_open(interface, 104, false, "ip")

I turned on promiscuous mode for this script.

David Fifield
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