Re: faster scans? (nmap)

[Yann Berthier <Yann.Berthier () hsc fr>]

On Mon, 03 Jun 2002, Michael Starr wrote:

> If all you're looking for is which hosts are up, you could try using 
> hping instead of nmap to do the initial scan -- then you could scan 
> only hosts that you know are there with Nmap.  I believe that hping 
> (haven't used it for a while, so check me on this) has an option to 
> use protocols other than icmp, so it can detect hosts that drop echo-

   Of course hping can do that :) Indeed it's a pretty effective
   scanner: for example 
   #hping -S -p ++7 --fast <host> 
   to do a SYN scan

   (not to say hping is more effective than nmap, in fact they are very
   complementary tools).

   Regards,

   - yann.

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   Yann.Berthier () hsc fr -*- HSC -*- http://www.hsc.fr/

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