On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Rich Whitcroft wrote:

> Not sure I'm understanding what this option does.

It causes Nessus to list each host in a report by its MAC address  
rather than an IP or hostname.

> I scanned a host with
> the command line interface (nessus -q localhost 1241 ...etc) to a NBE
> file, then set use_mac_addr = yes, and re-scanned the same host, but  
> the
> output files are identical.
> I expected to see the mac address somewhere
> in the nbe file.

Did Nessus detect the host as up?

Did you make the change in the server or client configuration file?  
[The client configuration file takes precedence.]

Does the setting appear in the SERVER_PREFS block? Is there only 1  
instance?

George
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