Re: Call for testers: Nping 0.1BETA1 Released.

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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On 08/07/2009 11:05 AM, Ron wrote:
> On 08/07/2009 10:55 AM, Luis M. wrote:
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > Nping behaves in a slightly different way than Nmap. If you look at the
> > man page you'll see that there are 7 levels of verbosity. However, the
> > initial level is level 4 so if you specify -vN where N<4 you are
> > actually telling Nping to display less information. Here is a quick ref
> > guide:
> >
> > Level 0: No output
> > Level 1: Fatal error messages
> > Level 2: Warnings and recoverable errors
> > Level 3: Normal but does not display sent/recv packets, just stats, etc.
> > Level 4: Display sent/recv packets and stats.
> > Level 5: Display detailed packet info.
> > Level 6: Display very detailed packet info.
> >
> > So to sum up: every instance of -v increments verbosity level by one
> > (starting from level 4). -vN sets verbosity level N.
> >
> > Luis.
>
> It may just be me, but I think this is confusing. I'd suggest starting
> off with a verbosity of 0, then using -q to make it go down and to -v to
> make it go up. So you can use -q3 to make it super quiet, and -v3 to
> make it super verbose.

It's not just you.  I was actually just in the process of writing a suggestion
very similar to yours.

> Ron

Cheers,
Kris Katterjohn

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