From fed99f16076f303b844176589e393473432c64d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: obrien Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:59:51 +0000 Subject: nmap is a utility for port scanning large networks 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. Thus nmap incorporats virtually every scanning technique known of. See the nmap homepage at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/index.html --- security/zenmap/pkg-descr | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 security/zenmap/pkg-descr (limited to 'security/zenmap/pkg-descr') diff --git a/security/zenmap/pkg-descr b/security/zenmap/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c77e677a1b2e --- /dev/null +++ b/security/zenmap/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +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). 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. Thus nmap +incorporats virtually every scanning technique known of. + +See the nmap homepage at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/index.html + +-- David + obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu -- cgit