> What can I do to setup nessus to perform better over a 256k bandwidth
> connection?
get an oc3?
No, seriously, limit the parallel tests by only testing one computer at a
time and only one test per computer. Also, use nmap as the port scanner
and use -T (timing) paranoid.
if the targets are NOT firewalled, make sure you use the ping_host so that
you arn't testing hosts that don't exist, and if you ARE doing a full ping
scan (U:1-65535,T:1-65535) also select 'consider unnscaned ports as
closed)
If you are testing MANY targets on different subnets, you might do
something like this first: (assuming they all respond to pings)
nmap -sP {subnet/targetlists} --randomize -T paranoid -oN nmap.in
grep '^Host .*appears to be up.$' | cut -d 2 -f ' ' > target.ip.in
then run nessus using target.ip.in as targets
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Michael Scheidell
SECNAP Network Security
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