[PATCH] new --min-retries options

[Jon Passki <jon.passki () hursk com>]

Hello All,

Today I was scanning using an unreliable network (shared wireless)  
and had some packet loss. I had root access to the host I was  
scanning, which allowed me to review the firewall logs and run a  
tcpdump of the traffic.  There was 2% to 20% packet loss, depending  
upon --max-parallelism and --min-parallelism settings.  The host had  
two ports open and four ports closed, will all the others filtered.   
Even with what seemed the default two retransmissions there still was  
loss.  Not thinking of any way around this, I threw together a quick  
patch to add a --min-retries options that will override the  
traditional way of incrementing retries.  If it looks like an option  
to add to nmap, I'll happily create a patch to the manual page (which  
is missing at the moment).

If this doesn't seem to be a good idea, what's a way to specify  
retries right now when it's known that the network suxx0rs?

Cheers,

Jon

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