So I have ntop in front of my NAPT device an it fingers the packet's OS as whatever system behind my NAPT device originally sent the packet. As for black art NMAP seems to hit more than miss in OS finger printing.


From: Aaron Grewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Ntop] NTOP v3 OS Fingerprinting
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:35:37 -0700

OS Fingerprinting based on network traffic is a black art.  I'd be
shocked if it was really accurate.

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 12:25, Crowe, Tom wrote:
> Anyone else find that OS fingerprinting is wrong?  I am using NTOP v3
> April 5th build and it's recognizing all of my machines as Windows 2000
> Pro and they are all Windows XP Pro(few exceptions).
>
> Just curious if this is a bug.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
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