Re: Adding new NSE discovered targets to Nmap

[Djalal Harouni <tixxdz () gmail com>]

On 2010-08-13 10:40:46 -0500, Daniel Miller wrote:
> On 08/12/2010 04:02 PM, Ron wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:52:38 +0200 Patrik Karlsson<patrik () cqure net>
> > wrote:
> >    
> > > About broadcast in NSE, do you need to do something to set
> > > SO_BROADCAST on the socket or is this taken care of?
> > >      
> > I'm *guessing* that's the issue, and I remember talking about enabling SO_BROADCAST on the list in the past. I 
> > don't think NSE has the ability to enable SO_BROADCAST, but I could be wrong.
> >
> >    
> > > //Patrik
> > >      
> SO_BROADCAST support was added to nsock, but is off by default. From 
> nsock/include/nsock.h:
>
>     /* Turns on or off broadcast support on new sockets. Default is off
>         (0, false) set in nsp_new(). Any non-zero (true) value sets
>         SO_BROADCAST on all new sockets (value of optval will be used
>     directly
>         in the setsockopt() call */
>     void nsp_setbroadcast(nsock_pool nsp, int optval);
>
> nsp_new() is called for NSE in nse_nsock.cc in luaopen_nsock(). To 
> enable broadcast, a call to nsp_setbroadcast() must be made after that call.
Thx Daniel, broadcast support is a must have for prerule scripts, and we
should let NSE scripts enable it.

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tixxdz
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