Errm. Why exactly do you want to use strobe? By your question it wouls seem that someone has told you to have a play with strobe, and you are not familiar with what it does exactly.

Strobe is a very old portscanner (the first one ever) written by an Aussie named Julian Assange (homepage at http://www.iq.org). (As usual, us Aussies are the first!!!) He is now working on bigger and better things like Rubber Hose (http://www.rubberhose.org) It is very old, but if you still want a copy, you can find it at http://www.cotse.com/tools/pscan.htm

That's only because of where the dateline is ;). Rubberhose is interesting, but they aren't to responsive (tried to do an article with them), also there are some fundemental issues with rubberhose that make it's implementation questionable.

Instead of strobe however, I suggest you take a look at Nmap (http://www.insecure.org/nmap/) which SuSE kindly include as an rpm in the Security secion of their cds

Yup. It's the only one I bothered to leave in the LASG. You might also want to check out Nessus, an security scanner, www.nessus.org.

Viel Spaß

Nix - nix@susesecurity.com

-Kurt