Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Castillo Builes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : onesixtyone * URL : <http://code.google.com/p/sipvicious/> http://www.phreedom.org/solar/onesixtyone/ * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang : C Description : An efficient SNMP scanner The approach taken by most SNMP scanners is to send the request, wait for n seconds and assume that the community string is invalid. If only 1 of every hundred scanned IP addresses responds to the SNMP request, the scanner will spend 99*n seconds waiting for replies that will never come. This makes traditional SNMP scanners very inefficient. Onesixtyone takes a different approach to SNMP scanning. It takes advantage of the fact that SNMP is a connectionless protocol and sends all SNMP requests as fast as it can. Then the scanner waits for responses to come back and logs them, in a fashion similar to Nmap ping sweeps. By default onesixtyone waits for 10 milliseconds between sending packets, which is adequate for 100Mbs switched networks. The user can adjust this value via the -w command line option. If set to 0, the scanner will send packets as fast as the kernel would accept them, which may lead to packet drop. Running onesixtyone on a class B network (switched 100Mbs with 1Gbs backbone) with -w 10 gives us a performance of 3 seconds per class C, with no dropped packets. All 65536 IP addresses were scanned in less than 13 minutes. -- Sebastián Castillo Builes Ingeniero de proyectos Fluidsignal Group S.A. Where security meets business http://www.fuidsignal.com/ ISO 9001:2000 ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Teléfono: +57 (4) 3522627 Móvil: +57 3008242145