== Checkin security of the inside but I am not outside bla, bla, bla ... ==

[Jerome Iffrig]

Hi,   I am clearly new with NESSUS and network security. My question is the following: I have a little private network at home which is connected to the internet via a LINUX server (RH7.2), I use masquerading to forward in / out traffic from my internal network to the internet. The server is connected to the Internet via PPP (DSL connection) - I have configured a firewall based on IPTables   Now my question is the following: How can I test the security of my network as if I was a black hat from the OUTSIDE (make sure that people from the internet cannot infiltrate it or simply crash my server and the internal network) using Nessus.   I would like to do it as if I was someone from the outside - However I have installed NESSUS on the server machine which runs the firewall - As far as I understand Nessus cannot operate properly in this environment. So, what is the recommended approach for the tests I want to do? Do I understand that I should find a second connection to the Internet and then from there run Nessus on a box running none firewall?   Thanks for your answers.   J�-