Re: Identify Linux OS in packet Header

["Arni Raghu" <arni caip rutgers edu>]

OS fingerprinting is not that easy...OS fingerprinters like nmap use
sophisticaed packet/type of packet arrivals/departures etc to determine the
kind of os..

It is pretty difficult to look at just one packet and decide...

Google for nmap and read their basic paper on OS
fingerpriting..interesting..

hth,
A



> Hello redhat-list,
>
>   Anyone ever hear of Liunx, as an OS, being identified anywhere in a
>   TCP/IP packet header?  Reason I'm asking is that a certain software
>   claims to be able to glean that specific information from the
>   packet header, dunno which daemon, of a Linux machine.
>
> Best regards,
>  Perry                          mailto:perryb badger1 net
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