Thanks. My question was fishing for better ways to scan unmanaged windows environemtns where many hosts have windows software firewall enebled and they are not responding to icmp. Essensially you are scanning and are blind to the network because there are live hosts you can't see.
On 1/22/08, Renaud Deraison (lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2008, at 6:45 PM, darko g wrote: > > > Does disabling ping/icmp speed up scanning at the cost or accuracy? > > No. In this particular case it will scan the remote host at the cost > of determining wether the host is alive or not. If it's not alive, > then the scan will slow down (a lot), otherwise there should not be > any noticeable difference. > > > -- Renaud > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > -- cheers, dg http://www.linkedin.com/in/darkog _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
