You just need to select "Ping the remote host" in port scanner section. You can change ping options in plugins preferences (TCP ping, ICMP ping ...)
Nicolas
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Dear scanners, I have to scan a range of IP's automatically (via commandline) e.g. 10.1.2.0/16.
And I really do not know, which IP's are online. I want to prevent my scan from taking hours or days because of waiting for timeouts....
I read about switching off the nmap portscans inside Nessus because of timing problems.
So I think about doing a ping before scanning
each of the boxes.
Can this ping being done inside the Nessus scan?
If yes, what is to do?
OR
Is it better to
first do a nmap-ping-scan > file_of_IP_alive then do the nmap-scan with [file_of_IP_alive] as input ?
would be nice to get a hint. Thank you all.
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