Re: [PATCH] Add --badsum equivalent run-time option

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 08:50:57PM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> The attached patch adds the run-time commands equivalent to the --badsum
> command-line option.

Thanks.  If someone needs this, now they have the patch for it.  But
it is probably too obscure for mainstream Nmap.  I've never started an
Nmap command and then realized "oh wait, I want Nmap to start corrupt
the TCP checksum of every packet it sends".  But I often accidentally
press keys while Nmap is running, and I don't want that to cause
disasterous results.  Right not pressing 'b' accidentally will just
show a brief status report.

> It may not be a very-much used option (or it could..), but IMO nmap
> should allow as many (reasonable) options as possible to be changed
> during execution.

As noted above, there are real costs to adding interactive commands.
In addition to mistaken presses, it bloats the code and documentation.
So I think we should only add interactive commands for things like
verbosity that people often want to change at runtime.  But having
this extra patch available could be useful for those few people who do
need/want the extra functionality.

Cheers,
-F



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