Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas?

[Michael Pattrick <mpattrick () rhinovirus org>]

On 3/9/09, Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel () roe ch> wrote:
> o Efficient network topology mapping.  Give Nmap (or Zenmap or even a
>   separate tool) a large network range or multiple ranges, and it will
>   automatically and intelligently determine the network topology
>   with a minimal number of probes / in minimal scan time, i.e. don't
>   do a full traceroute on each and every IP address.  There are many
>   ways to cut down the number of probes required versus the naïve
>   approach, including making educated guesses at subnetting, and
>   intelligently verify those using a minimal number of probes (think
>   binary search through possible/likely subnet layouts).

On the topic of the topology mapper mapper in Zenmap, does anyone else
find it can get extremely slow after scanning just a few hundred
hosts? Perhaps some student could optimize it.

As for SCTP based OS detection, that's probably a task too large for a
single student.


Cheers,
Michael Pattrick

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