From: rajat swarup (rajats@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 11 2007 - 01:06:05 EDT
On 8/10/07, Clone <en0lc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm new to NMAP. I have a curious question that I
> wanted to get expert opinion on...
>
> I was wondering whether running SYN, FIN, XMAS, NULL
> and ACK scans in parallel on a target generate false
> results. Since same client IP is asking for opening &
> closing a connection on target machine will it not
> render some ports open and other closed in the
> report?
>
>
No...the TCP connections required are based on the sequence numbers
generated by the source port. each flow is identified by source port
and sequence numbers. i'm not sure what's the source port generating
algorithms are used by nmap though.
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