----- Original Message ----- From: "Keeney, Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 12:55 PM Subject: RE: Anyone run nessus on a large (500 host) network?
> I do similar. > > On an internal network this is an outline of what I did on a few /16 sized > networks: > > 1. nmap ping scan the whole network. > 2. Determine the plugins I'm going to use. > 3. Create a .nessusrc file with the desired plugin information. > 4. Run the scans one subnet at a time on the command line. Depending on the > circumstances or the size of the network, use multiple systems to scan the > network and automate with shell scripts. > 5. Save everything into .nsr files, then merge them all together to create > the final report. so you can't get nessus to scan a full network either? Have you played with libpcap? remember, nmap uses it also, so if you have a FIXED version (nessus 1.11) -- Michael Scheidell Secnap Network Security, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1+(561) 368-9561 See updated IT Security News at http://www.fdma.com/ > > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hugh Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 9:36 AM > To: 'Michael Scheidell'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Anyone run nessus on a large (500 host) network? > > Solaris 8 box so hardware shouldn't be an issue. I've taken to limiting > my scans to 1 subnet at a time and running them with cron or by hand. I > use nmap to generate a list of "active" hosts, chop it up with VI and > feed that into nessus. >
