Round Trip Time, I believe. It's tracking how long it takes for the other box to respond. If it grows too large, it'll take forever for nmap to finish... usually this happens when you try to scan a firewall in stealth mode, not sure if one stealth is the same as the rest.
Ben On Thu, 2 May 2002, Thomas M. Albright wrote: > I'm checking my network with nmap, and i keep getting thie following > message: > [root@blood root]# nmap -sS -O 192.168.0.1 > > Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA7 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) > RTTVAR has grown to over 2.3 seconds, decreasing to 2.0 > > what is RTTVAR? > > -- There are always ears on the other side of the wall. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************