Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Sniffing for Viruses

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:40:12 +0000
On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 3:29 pm, Gerald Combs wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Richard Urwin wrote:
> > No well-written network app. should send ARPs to succesive addresses at
> > maximum rate, like the Welchia traffic I have seen.
>
> You're saying that Nmap isn't well-written?  :)

Seeing that Welchia DoSed a 256k ADSL uplink - if nmap does the same then yes.

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Richard Urwin