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cc: Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: network port
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>"Brian Henning" <b1henning@hotmail.com> writes:
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>>I am in need of a tool that verifies if a network port is good or bad, is there
>>a tool for bsd that can do this?
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>It kind of depends what you mean by "good" and "bad."
>For varying definitions of those terms, you might want 
>sockstat(1), nessus, nmap, or any of several other things.  
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Hmm... Also depends on what he means by "port". A port could be 
something like an RJ-45 jack, or SMTP port 25.

Jason