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Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ?
From: Dave McCormick <mccormic () xecu net>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:26:06 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 Petr.Kazil () eap nl wrote: <snip>
With Superscan I seem to have blown out a switch. It went "red" on the HP Openview screen and didn't react to ping anymore. All the network traffic continued - fortunately :-) As of today the admins haven't been able to tell me what really happened. I haven't dared to try Superscan anymore - although I like it's output very much - especially it's checks for headers and anonymous FTP and SMTP.
<Snip> You don't mention the type of switch you have encountered this on but I have run into this before with some HP switches. After getting chastised by the admins for bringing down a production switch with a scan I asked them what firmware version they were running on the switch and found out they were running an older version of firmware that had known issues. We scheduled a firmware upgrade and another scan indicated no more problems. Dave
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- Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Petr . Kazil (Nov 23)
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- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Peter Wood (Nov 24)
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- RE: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Jerry Shenk (Nov 24)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Dave McCormick (Nov 24)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Anders Thulin (Nov 25)
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- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? William Allsopp (Nov 24)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Jim Morgan (Nov 27)
- RE: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Brewis, Mark (Nov 25)
- RE: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Evans, Arian (Nov 27)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Donald Whitfield (Nov 27)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Donald Whitfield (Nov 27)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Donald Whitfield (Nov 27)
- RE: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Evans, Arian (Nov 27)