Re: [NSE] broadcast-ping

[Gorjan Petrovski <mogi57 () gmail com>]

Thanks for testing :)

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net> wrote:
> Hi Gorjan,
>
> This new version works better.
>
> //Patrik
> On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Gorjan Petrovski wrote:
>
> > Hey Patrik,
> >
> > Thanks for testing it out.
> >
> > I forgot to filter out IPv6 addresses. This script is currently
> > intended for IPv4 only. I'll talk to Weilin once he's got the hang of
> > NSE programming about implementing IPv6, and whether he's going to do
> > it or me. Here is the new version.
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net> wrote:
> > > On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:40 PM, Gorjan Petrovski wrote:
> > >
> > > > In the attachment you may find a new optimized version of the
> > > > broadcast-ping script. This version runs a dedicated thread for each
> > > > network interface. For each interface, first it opens the pcap socket,
> > > > then dispatches all the probes and after all of them are dispatched it
> > > > reads from the pcap socket.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone think this is a bad approach?  (I was originally afraid
> > > > that we might lose packets if the pcap buffer is too small)
> > > >
> > > > I've also included the info in the description that Toni and I agreed on.
> > > >
> > > > Comments are welcome and appreciated :)
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Gorjan
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> > >
> > > Hi Gorjan,
> > >
> > > The script works for me, however running it with -d3 I saw that a thread was crashing due to:
> > > scripts/broadcast-ping.nse:160: Error compiling our pcap filter: expression rejects all packets
> > >
> > > Looking a bit closer into the problem I noticed that the script seems to enter broadcast_if twice for the interface 
> > > en0.
> > > The first time the if_table.address contains an ipv4 address and the second time with an ipv6 address.
> > > I'm running the script on OS X. Let me know if you need any more information.
> > >
> > > //Patrik
> > > --
> > > Patrik Karlsson
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> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gorjan
> > <broadcast-ping.nse>
>
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> Patrik Karlsson
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