Re: Nmap SoC Ideas?

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 07:42:05AM -0500, Dario Ciccarone (dciccaro) wrote:
> +1. Combined w/ what Patrick pointed out about runaway NSE
> scripts. If you decided to scan the 10/8 network, and the scan is
> taking forever . . . Either break out tcpdump/ethereal, or stop the
> scan, add a bunch of "v" to the command line, start again.
>
> Now, if during the scan, we could "on the fly" affect the execution
> . . . Adding a bit of debug, adding/removing a v, heck, maybe even
> enable/disable OS detection . . . That would be useful :)

It is one of Nmap's lesser-known features (even though it is
documented), but you can affect debugging and verbosity on the fly.
If you press '?' while Nmap is running you get this list of runtime
commands:

Interactive keyboard commands:
?               Display this information
v/V             Increase/decrease verbosity
d/D             Increase/decrease debugging
p/P             Enable/disable packet tracing
anything else   Print status
More help: http://nmap.org/man/man-runtime-interaction.html

Cheers,
-F
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