Re: Nessus for port scanning --
Ron Gula <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.nessus.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
[email protected] wrote: > I'm looking at using Nessus for some general port scanning, so that i can > have all results consolidated in Security Center. I really want to limit > scanning to a port or 2, and limit the hosts to just a handful at a time, > to limit network traffic during the scan. > > My initial testing seemed to indicate that it was taking about a minute > and a half per IP. That was much longer than I expected. I was checking > for 2 open ports, 2 IPs at a time, no plugins running, all on a LAN, SYN > scan. > > Wondering if it's a case of using the wrong tool, or if there are > additional settings/tweaks I should consider. Any input appreciated. > Hi Mike, We're you performing the test under SC3 or under a Nessus Client? If you limited the scanned ports to just two ports, the scan should not have taken that long. I'm curious if you had any other plugins enabled such as service fingerprinting. Ron Gula _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus