Kelly, Jim wrote:
> Are there any caveats using Nessus on a Novell network?

In the past, users with older, unpatched Novell networks suffered a nasty
denial of service issue that could crash some of their servers. This resulted
in Tenable adding a 'Do not scan fragile devices' configuration option that
allowed for early detection of Novell devices in a scan and then stop scanning
that device. If you specifically want to scan Novell devices, you need to
enable the option 'Scan Novell Netware hosts'.

> Netware 6.5 uses TCP/IP, I believe in addition to the old IPX/SPX.

Nessus only audits Novell over TCP/IP, not IPX/SPX.

> Has anyone had any experience scanning a Netware 6.5 network? Can you
> share whatever caveats you might have?

Please check the archives of this email list.

> Can Nessus deal with this kind of network?

Yes, unless it is 100% IPX/SPX which we still run into occasionally, even
in 2008.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security




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