I'd say X out an afternoon...probably 3-4 hours with an extra hour included to monitor any hiccups that might occur along the way. That's just my estimate based on experience with scanning a large network.
Michael d'Estries Network Security Consultant Decision 1 It Solutions Ltd. Ph: 03 471-8232 Cell: 021-471-825 -----Original Message----- From: Alexandros Papadopoulos [mailto:apapadop@;cmu.edu] Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 10:29 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Time estimate needed! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm going to do a nessus scan of ~100 XP laptops. They will be gathered together by their owners just for the event, so I need to know the maximum time this could take. All machines will be connected to a 10MBps LAN. The machine that's going to do the scanning is a 1GHz PIII with 512MB RAM and a 10MBps eepro100 card, running Linux kernel 2.4.18. When testing only one host, with a full portscan, it takes ~20mins. How would this time increase with the number of hosts that are tested in parallel? Scanning needs to be as thorough as possible, so I can't just do a "fast" scan with Nmap to gain time. TIA - -A - -- http://andrew.cmu.edu/~apapadop/pub_key.asc 3DAD 8435 DB52 F17B 640F D78C 8260 0CC1 0B75 8265 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE90sQzgmAMwQt1gmURAruJAJ9WARE/BZIKBxKEAJ5fNJutrQ4n8ACdEmbw mPCpC4Ziu81NLm77TNwvBbY= =ff7M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body. ##################################################################################### This email has been scanned by MailMarshal and Sophos antivirus ##################################################################################### - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
