Does disabling ping/icmp speed up scanning at the cost or accuracy?
On 1/22/08, Renaud Deraison (lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Jason Luke wrote: > > > Well good. It's not me then. :) > > > > As a follow up, how is it that nessus can't "ping" it when I can. I > > can do an ICMP ping so I would assume then that that is not how > > nessus is doing it. In which case, can I change how nessus pings it? > > Basically, packet forgery does not work on this device -- Nessus can't > "hear" back what the remote host is sending. > > A solution to this problem is to disable all the ping methods in your > scan policy -> Advanced -> Ping the remote host and disable TCP ping, > ARP ping and ICMP ping. > > > > -- Renaud > > > -- cheers, dg http://www.linkedin.com/in/darkog _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list Nessus@list.nessus.org http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
