RE: Port Scanners / Sniffers Review

[Devilscrow Sr <devilscrow () sify com>]

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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?
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Hi Sam,

Scanners
1. hping2
2. nmap/xprobe2

Sniffers
1. tcpdump
2. dsniff
3. ettercap

/dev | ls cr0w/


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