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Status report #10 of 17
From: "Luis M." <luis.mgarc () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:12:06 +0200
Hi everyone! I am glad to say that after some weeks of hard work, Nping is ready to actually ping hosts and send many types of probes. Now may be the time to download it and play with it. Any comments are welcome. Finally, here are some of the accomplishments of last week and priorities for this week: Accomplishments: * Added support for UDP. * Added support for ICMP (all ICMP types are implemented, however, some type-dependant fields may not available from the command line yet). * Implemented multiple target port specification. * Added support for automatic source IP and network interface determination. This should simplify usage of nping because from now on, users will not have to worry about specifying a source IP or a net interface every time (unless they want to). * Improved class PacketElement performance in packet creation by letting specify a buffer to store the packet. So now, instead of using getBinaryBuffer(), which involves many mallocs and frees, method PacketElement::dumpToBinaryBuffer() is used. This should improve speed, specially on systems with unefficient malloc implementations. * Added option --bpf-filter that allows users to specify custom BPF filter specs. * Improved --data-length option parsing. * Improved efficiency in checksum calculations. * Changed default mode to ICMP Echo (if user is root) and TCP CONNECT if user is not root. * Fixed some bugs. * Had a meeting with Fyodor. * Scheduled next meeting. Priorities: * Find a bug that produces a segfault. For the moment the bug has only been seen on a x86-64 machine running GNU/Linux. * Finish ICMP support. * Start working on link layer support (raw ethernet, arp/rarp, etc.) * Review nmap's packet display format to see if it needs some improvements for nping. * Don't forget about portability and user documentation. Start writting man page! _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- Status report #10 of 17 venkat sanaka (Jun 29)
- Status report #10 of 17 Luis M. (Jun 29)
- Re: Status report #10 of 17 ithilgore (Jun 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Status Report #10 of 17 J Marlow (Jun 29)
- Status report #10 of 17 Joao Correa (Jun 29)
- Status report #10 of 17 Patrick Donnelly (Jun 29)
- Status report #10 of 17 Luis M. (Jun 29)