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Re: nmap -p syntax question


From: ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo () zoho com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:06:47 -0700

On 09/18/2013 01:37 AM, Anshuman Mukherjee wrote:
 From the Nmap Man Page:

The S you asked for must be
​SCTP (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol​
​)​

PORT SPECIFICATION AND SCAN ORDER
        In addition to all of the scan methods discussed previously,
Nmap offers options for specifying which ports are scanned and whether
the scan order is
        randomized or sequential. By default, Nmap scans the most common
1,000 ports for each protocol.

        -p port ranges (Only scan specified ports) .
            This option specifies which ports you want to scan and
overrides the default. Individual port numbers are OK, as are ranges
separated by a hyphen (e.g.
            1-1023). The beginning and/or end values of a range may be
omitted, causing Nmap to use 1 and 65535, respectively. So you can
specify -p- to scan ports
            from 1 through 65535. Scanning port zero.  is allowed if you
specify it explicitly. For IP protocol scanning (-sO), this option
specifies the protocol
            numbers you wish to scan for (0–255).

            When scanning both TCP and UDP ports, you can specify a
particular protocol by preceding the port numbers by T: or U:. The
qualifier lasts until you
            specify another qualifier. For example, the argument -p
U:53,111,137,T:21-25,80,139,8080 would scan UDP ports 53, 111,and 137,
as well as the listed TCP
            ports. Note that to scan both UDP and TCP, you have to
specify -sU and at least one TCP scan type (such as -sS, -sF, or -sT).
If no protocol qualifier is
            given, the port numbers are added to all protocol lists.
  Ports can also be specified by name according to what the port is
referred to in the
            nmap-services. You can even use the wildcards * and ? with
the names. For example, to scan FTP and all ports whose names begin with
“http”, use -p
            ftp,http*. Be careful about shell expansions and quote the
argument to -p if unsure.

with regards

Anshuman Mukherjee


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:25 AM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo () zoho com
<mailto:ToddAndMargo () zoho com>> wrote:

    Hi All,

    On the nmap command line, some questions about the "-p"
    parameter:

    1) what is the "-p S:xxx".  What protocol is "S"?
        By change is it ICMP?

    2) when you omitt the "T:" and/or the "U:" does it check
        both TCP and UDP.  What about the mysterious "S" protocol?
        Does it check that too?

    3) is
            -p 137,138,139,445
        the same as
            -p U:137,138,139,445,T:137,138,__139,445
        ?

    Many thanks,
    -T


Thank you!


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