| PackageDescription | The Network Mapper
nmap is a utility for port scanning large networks, although it works fine
for single hosts. The guiding philosophy for the creation of nmap was
TMTOWTDI (There's More Than One Way To Do It). This is the Perl slogan, but
it is equally applicable to scanners. Sometimes you need speed, other times
you may need stealth. In some cases, bypassing firewalls may be required.
Not to mention the fact that you may want to scan different protocols (UDP,
TCP, ICMP, etc.). You just can't do all this with one scanning mode. And
you don't want to have 10 different scanners around, all with different
interfaces. Thus I incorporated virtually every scanning technique I know
into nmap. Specifically, nmap supports:
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Vanilla TCP connect() scanning,
TCP SYN (half open) scanning,
TCP FIN (stealth) scanning,
TCP ftp proxy (bounce attack) scanning
SYN/FIN scanning using IP fragments (bypasses packet filters),
UDP recvfrom() scanning,
UDP raw ICMP port unreachable scanning,
ICMP scanning (ping-sweep), and
Reverse-ident scanning.
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nmap also supports a number of performance and reliability features such as
dynamic delay time calculations, packet timeout and retransmission, parallel
port scanning, detection of down hosts via parallel pings, and flexible
target and port specification. |