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UDP port scanning with nmap

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Name: Jeronimox
Date: March 8, 2005 at 08:07:29 Pacific
OS: Red Hat 9
CPU/Ram: 400 MHz
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Hi people,

I want to know if the firewall between my Linux and a remote host has the UDP/5000 port open, in order to implement a tunnel through it with Openvpn.

I use nmap as my port scanning....is it possible to scan UDP/5000 at a given firewall ??? How is the syntaxis ???

Really thanks !!!!

Jeronimox



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Name: iamc
Date: March 8, 2005 at 08:35:32 Pacific
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man nmap

30 seconds later....

nmap -sU -p 5000 <target>

don't forget to be root :)


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