"Tom D'Aquino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I ran tcpdump during the scan and noticed that when Nessus
> scans this particular host, all of the traffic has a source port of 0 and
> very few ports are checked.

This comes from ping_host.nasl. The nasl_tcp_ping function looks buggy :-\
Renaud ?

>  I know for certain that the host is behind a PIX firewall along
> with the rest of the hosts on the network.  SMTP may be 
> the only service listening on this host.  Can anybody give me some idea of
> why Nessus may not be able to see this host?

Don't ping the host, or add port 25 in the list of TCP ports.

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