I've seen the same behavior. Previously, I had always attributed it to a difference between the port scan and the plugin checks.
On 4/17/07, Knut Hellebø <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Regards, I recently installed Nessus 3.1.3 on a SuSE 10 box and have tried fiddling with some of the new, nice to have parameters: global.max_scans = 5 # Maximum of simulteanous TCP sessions between all scans : global.max_simult_tcp_sessions = 1000 # Maximum of simultaneous TCP sessions per scan : max_simult_tcp_sessions = 50 # Maximum of simultaneous TCP sessions per scanned host : host.max_simult_tcp_sessions = 10 When doing test along with the firewall admin, he reported an approximate 8000 session increase when trying to scan across the firewall monitored. The CPU load was also heavy. The load normalised when I terminated the scan. I cannot relate this apparent session increase to the parameters above. Am I missing something here ? Knut *********************************************************************** NOTICE: This e-mail transmission, and any documents, files or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete the e-mail and attached documents. Thank you. *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
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