Eric Whitehill wrote: > Basically I'm trying to figure out how Nessus determines a host is 'alive' > and then if it is alive, how does it determine if a port is open or not. > > It's not for me, it's for a vendor that is being rather 'difficult'. >
You might look in Chris McNab's book "Network Security Assessment" (O'Reilly). Chapter 4, "IP Network Scanning", probably has what you want to know. BobS Oh, I have absolutely no connection with O'Reilly. I just own a copy. _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
