From: Martin Mačok (martin.macok@underground.cz)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2006 - 02:36:42 EDT
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:52:19PM +0000, Bob Middaugh wrote:
> Use FreeBSD. I've scanned aggressively with several nmap processes
> running, with no problem at all....and that box also does stateful
> packet inspection.
Nmap is not a good tool for stressing a NAT router since it is not
very aggressive. It actually tries to be as much polite to the
infrastructure as possible... (closing half-open connections, limiting
parallelness, slowing down when drops are detected etc.)
Martin Mačok
ICT Security Consultant
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