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Re: Port Scanners / Sniffers Review

From: Philippe Biondi <biondi () cartel-securite fr>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:34:15 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Sam wrote:



Hello,

I would be interested in knowing how penetration testers rate various
port scanners and packet sniffers?

What would be the top five tools you would recommend?


One that has not been given :
http://www.cartel-securite.fr/pbiondi/scapy.html
(yes, its an ad for my tool :))


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