Re: [nmap-svn] r6963 - nmap-exp/david/nmap-fixed-rate

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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Fyodor wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:28:31AM +0000, Brandon Enright wrote:
|> I look forward to the end-result, sometime sending at N pps is exactly
|> what I want Nmap to do.
|
| Instead of offering just a fixed packet send rate (which I think is
| what Scanrand and Unicornscan do), I'm starting to think we should
| allow you to set a minimum and/or maximum packet send rate.  If you
| are trying to speed Nmap up, you would set a minimum rate which would
| override Nmap's normal congestion control algorithms if they would
| otherwise slow Nmap below that rate.  But this would still allow Nmap
| to ramp up to faster rates if you are scanning an unfirewalled
| localhost or the like.
|

I like this minimum rate idea more than the fixed rate.

Also (instead of replying to a different nmap-svn email): I think the
option would be more flexible if instead of --rate <num> (which is
per-second) like in r6962 of David's branch, it can be given a modifier
like "2/s" for 2 per-second, "150/m" for 150 per-minute, etc.  Or maybe
it should default to per-second.

Thanks,
Kris Katterjohn
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