On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:43:54AM +0200, Maria Magnusson wrote:
> I have installed nessus 2.0.6 for Darwin.
> nmap V. 3.00
>
> The problem is that it gives me the message for a host I know is up and running
> and should be possible to scan:
>
> [Wed Jun 4 11:27:51 2003][774] user maria : The remote host (XXXX) is dead
> (taken from the nessusd.message file and machine name removed)
>
> However, it is perfectly possible to both ping and scan this host manually with
> nmap, but not from nessus.
That's probably because you only have four /dev/bpf's. You need to
increase that value to something much higher (see
nessus-libraries/README.BPF)
-- Renaud
