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Re: Throttling down scans

Subject: Re: Throttling down scans
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:49:19 +0200
On Thu Aug 26 2004 at 17:30, Christopher J Bidwell wrote:

We are using a lot of routers with firewall featureset within them.  During
the scanning process, it opens up hundreds of half-open connections filling
the state tables of the routers thereby causing a DOS on the
network.

The problem probably comes from the port scanners.
If you can, use snmpwalk or netstat and disable the other port
scanners. Or run nmap with "polite" timing, maybe.
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