On Tue 2005.09.13 at 15:40 -0500, eric wrote: > I'm running 3.7-RELEASE with all patches on x86 hardware. I've tested > the bandwidth on them machine, and can easily handle 200-300Mbps. I/O is > decent too (this is an IBM x335 [dmesg below]). What *really* is nearly > impossible is running nessus and nmap on this host. Even using the ports, a > single nmap scan will take more than 4 hours. The network is 100 > full-duplex, and I've even testing setting the bge(4) cards to half-duplex > at 100Mbps. Any machine I've ever run nessus/nmap on with OpenBSD as the > underlying operating platform has had this problem. > > For those of us running your vulnerability scanners on OpenBSD, do you have > any tricks to fix these issues? I know they're not the best-coded > applications, but I'm stuck running them. > > Any thoughts are appreciated. I've tried with pf enabled and disabled, no > major difference in speed. I have a GENERIC.MP kernel with all the current > patches applied.
you fail to mention details of such issues...what are they?
