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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
