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paul@private

Hi,

I see that a lot of low-level network plugins (e.g. icmp_leak.nasl) use 
6 attempts when sending a packet. This matches the Linux kernel's 
retries for SYNs and also nmap's retries for SYN scan.

I just wondered what the basis for using 6 was? Does it really give 
significantly better results than using three?

Thanks for any info,

Paul

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