On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 01:28:36PM -0500, Dion Stempfley wrote:
> > This will help the system under test handle the scan more reliably, but I
> > don't think it will significantly reduce the bandwidth utilization on the
> > network. But someone correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> This will slow down the scan, so it will reduce the bandwidth being used
> at a given time (not the total bandwidth which will stay the same).
I thought that bandwith is data/time. So reduce data or increase time in
the equation.
The total amount of data to be sent from nessusd to the victim will not
change. So reducing bandwith will make your scan take longer.
Hugo.
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