On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:21:10AM -0700, Mark G. Spencer wrote:
> I am currently running Nessus against my SonicWall Pro with the UDP
> scanning option on all 65535 ports. It looked like everything was
> progressing normally - the Nessus status bar was slowly moving during
> the NMAP portion, the SonicWall was lit up with activity, and I was
> receiving email alerts from the SonicWall.
>
> However, at the very end of the NMAP process, the Portscan status bar is
> one tick away from the end and the Attack status bar is one tick in.
> Nessus has been like this for @ 15 minutes now. It doesn't look like
> anything is going to happen.
As said before on this list (look into the archives), the nmap progress
bar is bogus (ie: grows with the time, not with the actual progress of
the scan), as there's no way to really determine what the status of the
scan is.
If you enabled UDP port scan for 65k ports and did not play with the
timing options of nmap, the scan may take as long as 24hours to
complete.
-- Renaud
