Well the machines also have IP addresses so i assume that as long as it can 
communicate with the hosts, the tests are not going to be bothered by the 
IPX running on the same network, but i could be wrong on this.  I will try 
verifying via Nmap as someone earlier suggested.

Thanks


At 07:45 AM 4/24/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Tony Howlett wrote:
>
> > Has anyone ever heard of any issues with running Nessus on an IPX
> > network.  I recently tried to use it for an assessment at a bank who was
> > using IPX.  They had the Novell IP stack so i though it would be no 
> problem
> > however the scan cranked away for several hours then came back with all 
> the
> > hosts showing nothing but a general note for the traceroute.   I dont know
> > if this is a IPX issue or something else going on.  Any help would be
> > appreciated.
>
>Nessus does not do any IPX test so using it in an IPX network is useless.
>
>Hugo.
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