Re: NSE / nsock library questions

[majek04 <majek04 () gmail com>]

On 5/22/08, Thomas Buchanan <TBuchanan () thecompassgrp net> wrote:
> I'll pose the questions first, and then provide a little background in
>  case it helps.
>
>  1.  Does NSE or nsock allow you to create and open a socket for
>  (inbound) listening, rather than for (outbound) connections?

No.

>  2.  Does NSE allow you to specify the originating port or port range
>  that you would like to use for sockets?

I coded this feature, but it's not included. There are also some
theoretical problems with it (as Doug suggested [1]). But the good
thing is that you can have many _outgoing_ connections from
one port.

Cheers!
  Marek Majkowski

[1] http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q2/0319.html

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