Re: Nmap 4.60 released

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:48:58AM +0000, Brandon Enright wrote:
> I've used qscan to test the effects of traffic classification rules on
> a L7 protocol analyzing load balancer (Packeteer packet shaper
> product).
>
> I was using hping2 to gather stats for different ports to infer the
> effects of different classification rules but even minor changes were
> tedious to measure the effects of.  Qscan automated the whole
> measurement portion of the process.
>
> One change I'd like to see to qscan is that it become another option
> like traceroute rather than its own scan.  I'd like to be able to run
> discovery and standard port scanning and then at the end, have qscan
> run to lump the ports into buckets.  I don't believe this would
> sacrifice any power or flexibility and would make qscan integrate into
> Nmap as though it were just another --feature rather than a completly
> different mode.

Thanks for your comments.  Maybe it would make a good NSE script now
that we have pcap and raw IP functionality built in.  It would
certainly be interesting to see whether NSE is performant enough to
handle this task which requires very accurate timing.

Cheers,
-F

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