From 71927acb029c1573b6006ef2fe7e7bc960d62fa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Loss <mail@dirk-loss.de>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:43:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Updated docs to show that nmap module must be explicitly
loaded
---
doc/scapy/installation.rst | 1 +
doc/scapy/usage.rst | 10 +++++++---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/scapy/installation.rst b/doc/scapy/installation.rst
index 1f4faaec..94454afe 100644
--- a/doc/scapy/installation.rst
+++ b/doc/scapy/installation.rst
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ Here are the topics involved and some examples that you can use to try if your i
.. code-block:: python
+ >>> load_module("nmap")
>>> nmap_fp("192.168.0.1")
Begin emission:
Finished to send 8 packets.
diff --git a/doc/scapy/usage.rst b/doc/scapy/usage.rst
index 34e2bc9f..1ac80e84 100644
--- a/doc/scapy/usage.rst
+++ b/doc/scapy/usage.rst
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ administrator privileges::
If you do not have all optional packages installed, Scapy will inform you that
some features will not be available::
-
+
INFO: Can't import python gnuplot wrapper . Won't be able to plot.
INFO: Can't import PyX. Won't be able to use psdump() or pdfdump().
@@ -1489,11 +1489,15 @@ Once we obtain a reasonable number of responses we can start analyzing collected
nmap_fp
^^^^^^^
-If you have nmap installed you can use it's active os fingerprinting database with Scapy. First make sure that version 1 of signature database is located in the path specified by::
+Nmap fingerprinting (the old "1st generation" one that was done by Nmap up to v4.20) is supported in Scapy. In Scapy v2 you have to load an extension module first::
+
+ >>> load_module("nmap")
+
+If you have Nmap installed you can use it's active os fingerprinting database with Scapy. Make sure that version 1 of signature database is located in the path specified by::
>>> conf.nmap_base
-Scapy includes a built-in ``nmap_fp()`` function which implements same probes as in Nmap's OS Detection engine::
+Then you can use the ``nmap_fp()`` function which implements same probes as in Nmap's OS Detection engine::
>>> nmap_fp("192.168.1.1",oport=443,cport=1)
Begin emission:
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