Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:40:25 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: linux quest <linuxquest7570@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: NMap in FreeBSD Problem ... Message-ID: <200701100940.25384.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070109171839.98742.qmail@web59203.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <20070109171839.98742.qmail@web59203.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On Tuesday 09 January 2007 18:18, linux quest wrote: > Thanks ... I think the 'rehash' command does help a bit... at least now, > when I type 'nmap', I can see the help manual (before this, there was just > error msg). However, now, when I type 'nmap 192.168.1.10', (where > 192.168.1.10 is the PC that I wanted to scan) ... I got the message ... > > 'Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec' This is not a message from nmap, but from FreeBSD. It means that the system is sending more than 200 ICMP packets/per second. I reckon you see this line on the machine you're scanning. Your scan will continue as normal but will be slowed down by this cool safety feature of FreeBSD :). If you want to turn this off set sysctl net.inet.icmp.icmplim_output=0. Please keep in mind that a scan will take a long time to complete with nmap's default options. Hope this helps, Pieter
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