Cheers Matt, I only have 2 full open ports on the XP box, so no, half open ports is not the problem.
Everything is working exactly as it is supposed to, including XP SP2!! (AMAZING) I just wanted to cut down on the time it takes for the portscan to wait for a reply from a scan (connection) request to a port, i.e. Nessus checks port 15550 and it takes 180 seconds to timeout with no reply. I want to reduce that to 40 seconds to timeout. Cheers Brennon -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: timeouts... If this is the problem I am thinking it s (half-open ports in windows XP SP2), the patch is located at http://www.lvllord.de/?url=downloads<=en#4226patch Download it, and change the allowed number of half-open ports to something about 100. If you do P2P (thats bad mmmkay?) raise it even further. This was a "feature" introduced by SP2, because they say the only reason to have half-open ports is to use "hacker" tools. If you need any more help, feel free to ask. Matt Carlson (314) 362-0870 4353 Clayton Avenue Mailstop : 90-68-145 Saint Louis, MO 63110 http://issecurity.carenet.org >>> "Brennon Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/28/2004 7:34:58 AM >>> Can anyone tell me what preference setting controls the timeout of the port scanner? As Eric pointed out to me, XP is just playing with the scanner and making it wait until it times out, causing a really long portscan. I just want to reduce this. Cheers All _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
