Re: Excessive traffic in -PS/PA/PU ping scans

[cybernmd <cybernmd () gmail com>]

Thanks for the help,

Good thing I've asked, because I have wrongfully assumed that -P[SAU]
argument can stand by itself when in reality it is just a modifier to an
already existing scan. 

So nmap was doing exactly what I've asked it to do: perform default scan
with SYN ping to discover hosts and of course it wasn't doing SYN ping
for local hosts when it could just do ARP ping thus ignoring the port in
-PS443 argument ... silly me =)

So just like Eddie said what i really wanted was indeed:
 sudo nmap -sP -PS443 192.168.1.1

Thanks again,

-Peter


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