Hello All,

Is there a way to determine the OS/platform of a box on the intranet/interne
t gi
ven that all the TCP/UDP/IP ports on the remote box are blocked (not availab
le)?

Does ICMP request/response has any capability of achieving this?

Thanks a lot for your help and comments.
Rgds,
jsb_bh

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In article <f092799f.0407230035.39d059de@posting.google.com>,
jsb_bh@yahoo.com (jsb_bh) wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Is there a way to determine the OS/platform of a box on the intranet/inter
net
> gi
> ven that all the TCP/UDP/IP ports on the remote box are blocked (not
> available)?
>
> Does ICMP request/response has any capability of achieving this?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help and comments.
> Rgds,
> jsb_bh

You can only guess based upon a "fingerprint".  nmap does this.  Check
out the source code.

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