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Re: Timing documentation
From: Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:11:45 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fyodor wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:02:23PM -0500, Jon Kibler wrote:I noticed a minor nmap man page issue for {min|max}-parallelism. The man page suggest that the parameter given be a "time" value. This should be a "number of probes" value.Hi Jon. Can you elaborate on this? When I read the man page section on --min (and --max) parallelism at http://nmap.org/book/man-performance.html, I'm not seeing this implication that they be given a time value. Maybe you have a rather old version of Nmap?
- From nmap 5.10BETA2 man page (with sections cut out): MAN PAGE: /usr/share/man/man1/nmap.1.gz NMAP(1) Nmap Reference Guide NMAP(1) <SNIP!> the rest of this manual. Some obscure options aren´t even included here. Nmap 5.10BETA2 ( http://nmap.org ) Usage: nmap [Scan Type(s)] [Options] {target specification} TARGET SPECIFICATION: Can pass hostnames, IP addresses, networks, etc. <SNIP!> TIMING AND PERFORMANCE: Options which take <time> are in milliseconds, unless you append ´s´ (seconds), ´m´ (minutes), or ´h´ (hours) to the value (e.g. 30m). -T<0-5>: Set timing template (higher is faster) --min-hostgroup/max-hostgroup <size>: Parallel host scan group sizes --min-parallelism/max-parallelism <time>: Probe parallelization --min-rtt-timeout/max-rtt-timeout/initial-rtt-timeout <time>: Specifies probe round trip time. <SNIP!> I hope this helps! Jon - -- Jon R. Kibler Chief Technical Officer Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc. Charleston, SC USA o/c/s: 843-849-8214 / 843-813-2924 / 843-564-4224 e: Jon.Kibler () aset com or Jon.R.Kibler () gmail com s: JonRKibler http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonrkibler My PGP Fingerprint is: BAA2 1F2C 5543 5D25 4636 A392 515C 5045 CF39 4253 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktTUuEACgkQUVxQRc85QlOdZACfRkYIBisa0pK/AHSOBmvXU+p8 L4cAn1GWK0DOW4JJfSG9+zpkp5M4s1aN =+n5K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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- Timing documentation Jon Kibler (Jan 15)
- Re: Timing documentation Fyodor (Jan 17)
- Re: Timing documentation Jon Kibler (Jan 17)
- Re: Timing documentation Fyodor (Jan 18)
- Re: Timing documentation Jon Kibler (Jan 17)
- Re: Timing documentation Fyodor (Jan 17)