<div>1) I'm sure none of you can imagine this, but sometimes running and startup configs aren't the same. YES it's TRUE! So, your approach could be disastrous and is really ill advised.</div>
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<div>2) Nmap may not give reliable results from all sites. Surely you've encounted ACLs that caused erroneous nmap results from some locations. As the guy said: sometimes he travels. Having the capability to run it from a neutral location can get by that.
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<div>I'm sure there's more.....<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg</b> <<a href="mailto:full-disclosure3@pchandyman.com.au">full-disclosure3@pchandyman.com.au</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><br>I don't wish to upset anyone but that answer has to be the craziest FIRST<br>"port of call" approach I have seen used. I get plenty of those sorts of
<br>calls. I take about 30 seconds time on the phone for almost all of them. I<br>say "Pull the power plug out of the router. Wait 10 seconds, plug it back in<br>and wait another 10 seconds. OK, try now" and almost all of them report it
<br>works well.<br><br>So why would I need and how could I use Nmap online to tell me the router<br>went crazy and locked up?<br><br>Besides, wouldn't it be just as easy to use the Nmap sitting on my computer<br>if I decided I needed to use it?
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