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Re: New to Nmap
From: ambarisha b <b.ambarisha () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:19:17 +0530
Hi, I know I am a bit late(out of station).I have been studying Nmap Network Discovery like you guys said.Will finish it in 2 days.While referring the code ,I saw this in the todo folder(david.txt). Nsock: Add a buffer to each iod, so that you can ask for a certain number of bytes or lines and get exactly that many, no more. Venkat wrote a proposal at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q3/0600.html. I read the proposal, but I couldn't figure out the reason to add a buffer to iod to serve this specific purpose.The facility is already built into networking sockets.But may be do_actual_read() is not availing it.In the recvfrom() (line:637) call instead of passing sizeof(buf) as an argument, if max_chunk is passed, then it should do.Anyway max_chunk is being set to the requested no.of bytes if the call is readbytes().Would this work or am I missing something? If this has specifically been assigned to David , I am sorry of nosing in. Cheers, Ambarisha PS:@Fyodor:Great work on the book! _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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- Re: New to Nmap ambarisha b (Jan 11)
- Re: New to Nmap David Fifield (Jan 11)