Re: Malfunction with nmap

["Michael Pattrick" <mpattrick () rhinovirus org>]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:36 PM, H Dixon <tai_mai_shu2002 () hotmail com> wrote:
> Thanks for your quick reply Brandon. I updated my NIC. For a second I actually thought Nmap was working through but 
> the connection still died (It doesn't show i lost my connection on my network device--just doesn't let me 
> ping/connect to a website). However I might have found the culprit. Using the ethereal sniffer I discovered that in 
> one minute of the scan i have 56 UDP packets and 2,856 ARP requests.  So, that's about 48 Arp requests a second. So 
> we can be pretty much assured it's not nmap. Just my card can't handle all the requests at once? What's your take on 
> the situation. Thanks,
> Heath

While that amount of ARP packets is excessive, you would be hard
pressed to find a computer capable of running windows XP that couldn't
handle that amount of traffic - 50 arp packets per second is about
3KB/sec.

Do you loose your connection after the other stealth scans(-sS, -sX, -sA)?

Cheers,
Michael

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