Thanks for all the responses. I'm scanning the default port range of 1 - 15000. Under Port Scanner I have tcp connect() scan and Nmap checked. Under prefs I am doing both an ICMP and TCP ping and have the Number of retries (ICMP) = 3. Still in Prefs. tab under Nmap: and TCP scanning techniques I have connect() selected, in addition to UDP port scan, and Identify the remote host. My scanning box is behind an OpenBSD firewall, but as I said before when just using Nmap I have no issues. The remote host I was scanning was a Linksys Router which may be one of the reasons for the slowness, but the Nmap portion of the nessus scan took over 3 hours and scanning it via nmap command line took only 5 - 10 min.
To follow up on other questions the scanning host is Red Hat 7.3. Michael Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By the way: I have seen that there are two wrapper plugins for nikto > and whisker. Are these tools included in Nessus Do I need to install nikto and whisker? Does Nessus require these tools? If so I didn't see them listed in the documentation. Best Regards, John Hines ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michel Arboi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 3:05 AM Subject: Re: nmap taking forever > "John Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've been unable to find a way to speed up the initial nmap scan. I > > usually run the tcp connect udp scan, and OS fingerprinting. When I > > scan external IP's to my network the nmap scans often go on for hours. > > However from command line I can scan the hosts with both the tcp and > > udp scans in just a matter of minuets. > > What port range do you set in the last case? > http://michel.arboi.free.fr/UKUSA/secu/nessus_slow_scan.html > - > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. > * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe nessus" in the body. > - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
