Re: Nping development

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

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On 12/31/2008 06:20 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:57:14AM +0100, Henri Doreau wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply. I've opened a project on sourceforge under the
> > name of APing2. There is nothing really interesting yet but I hope
> > that it will reach the required quality level soon.
> > I would have opinions about some options. hping2 has "modes" you can
> > call typing -1, -2...
> > But nmap and ncat use -6 to enable ipv6, that might be confusing. What
> > would you prefer : give priority to nmap like options (and rename the
> > original hping2 modes) or hping2 ones (and rename the ipv6 flag), in
> > this case I mean.
>
> I didn't have the idea for Nping so I can't answer specific questions
> about requirements. I see at http://nmap.org/SoC/Ncat.html that "Some
> flags may use the Nmap-style option name rather than hping-style."
> You'll have to wait to see what others have to say on this one.

I think that for both Ncat and Nping if there is the potential for confusion
between the original netcat/hping options and Nmap's options, we change it to
a more Nmap-style variety.

> David Fifield

Thanks,
Kris Katterjohn

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