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Nmap Development: Re: [PATCH] new --min-retries options

Re: [PATCH] new --min-retries options

From: Fyodor <fyodor_at_insecure.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:35:27 -0700

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:14:10PM -0500, Jon Passki wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Today I was scanning using an unreliable network (shared wireless)
> and had some packet loss. I had root access to the host I was
> scanning, which allowed me to review the firewall logs and run a
> tcpdump of the traffic. There was 2% to 20% packet loss, depending
> upon --max-parallelism and --min-parallelism settings. The host had
> two ports open and four ports closed, will all the others filtered.
> Even with what seemed the default two retransmissions there still was
> loss.

Did you get wrong results with the default Nmap timing behavior, or
had you also specified aggressive timing options such as
--min-parallelism when this happened?

Cheers,
-F

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