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Re: Nmap 4.x --max-retries option not being honored for "Ping Scan's"

From: Martin Mačok <martin.macok () underground cz>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:58:26 +0100

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 09:57:18AM -0800, codeproj () nym hush com wrote:

The --max-retries option is not being honored for "Ping Scans" 
(i.e., command-line option "-sP").


It was meant to be honored only for port scan probes (as documented in
the man page) and not for pinging.

That does not mean I'm against limiting ping probes this way too...

Martin Mačok
ICT Security Consultant

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