Re: Port Scanners / Sniffers Review

[cdowns <cdowns () angrypacket com>]

I would say  the top 5 for myself are definately:

1: nmap ( the obvious )
2: hping ( packet munipulation ++ )
3: tcpdump ( great ASCII dump mode. )
4: ngrep  ( search regex in packet sniff. )
5: ettercap ( I use this instead of "hunt" now for simplicity and just 
works well. )

~!>D

Sam wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would be interested in knowing how penetration testers rate various
> port scanners and packet sniffers?
>
> What would be the top five tools you would recommend?
>
> Thanks for any input,
> Sam
>
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