Kportscan 3.0 May 2026

[User CLI] → [Controller] → [Packet Scheduler] → [Sender Engine] → [NIC]
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[Result Processor] ← [ML Classifier] ← [Receiver Engine] ← [NIC]
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                             [Database / JSON / Log]

For power users, KPortScan 3.0 includes a built-in Lua-based scripting engine. You can write simple scripts that:

Predefined profiles (e.g., "Web Servers", "Database Ports", "Kubernetes Nodes") allow one-click scanning. Users can also define custom port lists or ranges (e.g., 22,80,443,8000-9000). kportscan 3.0

kportscan [targets] [options]

| Limitation | Impact | Mitigation | |------------|--------|-------------| | No TCP connect scan for localhost | Cannot bypass host firewall rules | Use --force-tcp-connect flag | | Requires root/admin for raw sockets | Not user-friendly | Provide capabilities/CAP_NET_RAW | | IPv6 full subnet scan impossible | User may attempt | Hard limit: abort if >1M targets | | UDP scanning unreliable | Packet loss high | Use retransmission with exponential backoff | | Cloud scanning may violate ToS | Legal risk | Warn user; require --cloud-compliance-ack | | eBPF requires kernel 5.8+ | Legacy systems unsupported | Fallback to raw socket mode | [User CLI] → [Controller] → [Packet Scheduler] →