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Document the "broadcast" script category.

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@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ Black Hat Briefings in 2010.</para>
<para>NSE scripts define a list of categories they belong to.
Currently defined categories are
<literal>auth</literal>,
<literal>broadcast</literal>,
<literal>default</literal>.
<literal>discovery</literal>,
<literal>dos</literal>,
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</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<indexterm><primary sortas="broadcast script category">&ldquo;<literal>broadcast</literal>&rdquo; script category</primary></indexterm>
<option>broadcast</option>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Scripts in this category typically do discovery of hosts
not listed on the command line by broadcasting on the local network.
Use the
<varname>newtargets</varname><indexterm><primary><varname>newtargets</varname> script argument</primary></indexterm>
script argument to allow these scripts to automatically add the
hosts they discover to the Nmap scanning queue.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<indexterm><primary sortas="default script category">&ldquo;<literal>default</literal>&rdquo; script category</primary></indexterm>