On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Norbert Kiesel wrote:
> scanning ports 1-15000 on machine behind a (PIX) firewall with
> synscan.nes takes about 6 hours. I could of course deactivate
> this scanner, but not all machines in this scan are behind the
> firewall. Clustering targets based on topology and scanning using
> different configs is of course possible but not elegant.
>
> Couple of questions:
> 1) is this 6 hour run-time expected?
It is most likely. Frankly I have always accepted the long time it takes
nessus to complete a scan of firewall protected networks. (As that is what
we do almost completely as we check our firewall installations.)
Hugo.
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