Re: NPing running out of sockets

[Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net>]

Hi Luis,

I've tested the patch and it seems to work.

//Patrik
On 15 okt 2010, at 16.20, Luis MartinGarcia. wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> I think I have a temporary work-around for the problem. Please try the
> attached patch and let me know if it works for you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Luis MartinGarcia.
>
>
>
> On 10/01/2010 05:20 PM, Patrik Karlsson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While testing the broadcast functionality per Davids instructions [1] I ran into some trouble with Nping.
> > It seems as if sockets are not released properly and slowly increase with each packet being sent.
> > After 252seconds I'm out of sockets on my OS X system. The error looks like this:
> >
> > SENT (246.2010s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> > SENT (247.2020s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> > SENT (248.2020s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> > SENT (249.2030s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> > SENT (250.2040s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> > SENT (251.2040s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> > SENT (252.2040s) UDP packet with 20 bytes to 255.255.255.255:67
> > Socket troubles: Too many open files
> > Assertion failed: (nse->iod->sd >= 0), function nsp_add_event, file nsock_core.c, line 1239.
> > Abort trap
> >
> > This is the command I'm running
> > nping --udp -p 67 255.255.255.255 -c 0 --data-length 20
> >
> >
> > //Patrik
> >
> > [1] http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q4/1
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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