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targets-sniffer not using promiscuous mode?


From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:35:40 -0700

Hi,

Why does targets-sniffer.nse not use promiscuous mode? As it is, it only
finds addresses that communicate with the scanning host, which is not
that useful. Why don't we change false to true here?

sock:pcap_open(interface, 104, false, "ip")

David Fifield
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