1 Nmap is a utility for network exploration and security auditing.
2 It supports various types of host discovery (determine which hosts
3 are up), many port scanning techniques for different protocols,
4 version detection (determine service protocols and application
5 versions listening behind ports), and TCP/IP stack fingerprinting
6 (remote host OS or device identification). Nmap also offers
7 flexible target and port specification, decoy/stealth scanning,
8 sunRPC scanning, and much more.
10 Also included is Ncat, the nc(1) work-a-like of the Nmap project.
11 Refer to the separate port security/zenmap for those parts of the
12 Nmap toolset which depend on python. The translated manual pages
13 for Nmap are contained in security/nmap-i18n-man.
17 See the web page and the Phrack Magazine article (Volume 7, Issue 51
18 September 01, 1997, article 11 of 17) http://nmap.org/p51-11.html