Re: interactive mode

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:41:29AM -0600, Ron wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:03:28 +0100 alejandro ramos <aramosf.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > What about to add interactive keys to change performance options when
> > running long nmaps like
> >
> > --min-hostgroup/max-hostgroup
> > --min-parallelism/max-parallelism
> > --min-rtt-timeout/max-rtt-timeout/initial-rtt-timeout
> > --host-timeout
> > --scan-delay/--max-scan-delay
> >
> > Thank you
> We talked about this at Defcon, and I personally think it's a great idea. 
>
> I don't know what kind of complexities might crop up, though, with changing this stuff in the middle of a scan. 

I think it would help to have a proposal for the user interface should
be, as in what keys should have what effect. That's probably the most
useful thing short of a patch.

David Fifield
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