Re: arp scan on nmap help summary page

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 09:15:47PM +0100, wolfric none wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> Apologies if this is the wrong mailing list but just wondering why arp scan
> doesn't seem to be in the nmap help summary. I'm running 5.30beta1
> according to http://nmap.org/book/man-host-discovery.html it's listed as PR
> but i haven't been able to find any mention of it. Are some options left
> out altogether on purpose perhaps?

Yes, the help screen omits many options, showing only the most
important. -PR is activated automatically when you're scanning local
Ethernet hosts, so that option is hardly used.

David Fifield
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