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Re: RFC on Nping: Raw packet probing nirvana
From: ithilgore <ithilgore.ryu.l () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 15:28:25 +0300
Fyodor wrote:
o Must support dealing with ethernet frames, IP, TCP, UDP, and ICMP. We might find other protocols useful as well. It must be able to handle these raw, and also provide cooked modes using connect() and UDP regular socket sends. Those can be useful for users without raw socket privileges (e.g. nonroot on UNIX, or Windows without pcap).
Considering how multicasting has recently gained much popularity, (multimedia farms, game servers etc) it would be interesting if Nping supported IGMP. Another possible option would be IPsec (though things might get a bit complex here).
o Maybe some sort of scripting functionality would be nice. If so, it should of course be in Lua. But maybe Nmap NSE using the raw packet mode and pcap is sufficient and we don't need it in Nping.
I believe that hping3's TCL scripting support was maybe one of its main advantages, so perhaps a future integration of Nping's scripting capabilities with NSE will prove quite useful.
o Must be written in C++ (can be very C-like as Nmap itself is) and portable (Linux, Mac, Windows, etc) The plan is to distribute Nping along with Nmap, Zenmap, and Ndiff. Those are my thoughts, and I hereby open the floor to ideas! Remember that it is much easier to make major changes now while we're still in the planning stage than once we begin implementation. Let us know what you think! Cheers, Fyodor
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Current thread:
- RFC on Nping: Raw packet probing nirvana Fyodor (May 06)
- Re: RFC on Nping: Raw packet probing nirvana Brandon Enright (May 06)
- Re: RFC on Nping: Raw packet probing nirvana Luis M. (May 07)
- Re: RFC on Nping: Raw packet probing nirvana Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman (May 07)
- Re: RFC on Nping: Raw packet probing nirvana doug (May 30)
- Re: RFC on Nping: Raw packet probing nirvana Luis M. (Jun 01)
- Re: RFC on Nping: Raw packet probing nirvana Luis M. (May 07)
- Re: RFC on Nping: Raw packet probing nirvana Brandon Enright (May 06)
- Re: RFC on Nping: Raw packet probing nirvana Fyodor (May 08)
- Re: RFC on Nping: Raw packet probing nirvana Ron (May 08)