Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name : hummingbird Version : 1.7 Upstream Author : Mike Schiffman URL : http://www.packetfactory.net/projects/hummingbird/ License : BSD(?) Description : Asychronous Scanning Engine
>From the web page: "Hummingbird is a module-based asynchronous scanning engine. It is a generic platform useful for scanning large sets of target devices in very short periods of time. So we can get better acquainted, let's qualify some of those terms: * Scan: to construct and send packets or frames across a network and decode and record the responses (or lack thereof) * Large sets: Targets on the order of several hundred to several hundred thousand devices * Target devices: IPv4, IPv6 or Ethernet devices * Short periods of time: Packet injection and capturing is split into different threads of execution enabling complete asynchronous execution (the above example took two seconds to scan 53 hosts because hummingbird had to wait for the responses before exiting -- if it didnt wait, the program would send its packets and exit long before all of the responses would have had a chance to trickle in. Trust me, this scales much better for large target sets)" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]