>You may want to try to switch to the SYN scanner instead of the tcp
>connect() one which is very slow against firewalled hosts.
>connect() one which is very slow against firewalled hosts.
In the past I had been using nmap, ping, as well as the tcp connect(), before I started the scan last night I turned off nmap, ping, and tcp connect. I then turned on SYN scan and let it run. In addition, I left out the network printers that were on that subnet and turned the maximum hosts scanned down to 10. When I left last night it appeared that the scan had already stopped although only a third of the scan was complete. I came in this morning and the scan was still at the same spot that it was when I left.
>You may want to do a "ps auxw" on the nessusd side to see which processes are still >there
I did a "ps auxw" and the line referencing nessusd is as follows:
root 1789 0.0 0.9 4888 2536 ? S 07:29 0:00 nessusd: waiting
for incoming connections
Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks again for all your help!
Steve
p.s. As I stated in an earlier message, I have recently upgraded my PC. Other than the hardware changes, there was one major software change, the addition of Cisco Security Agent. Is there a possibility that Cisco Security Agent is interfering with the connection between the client and the host? Again, I have successfully scanned subnets on this new PC, but all of the ones I have been successful with were little used subnets that scanned quickly.
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