[66708] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sniffer/promisc detector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexei Roudnev)
Wed Jan 21 12:04:41 2004
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
To: "Ruben van der Leij" <ruben-nanog@nutz.nl>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:04:40 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Please, do it:
time nmap -p 0-65535 $target
You will be surprised (and nmap will not report applications; to test a
response, multiply time at 5 ). And you will have approx. 40% of packets
lost.
Practically, nmap is useless for this purpose.
>
> Somebody who isn't smart enough to do 'nmap -p 0-65535 $target' isn't
worth
