On Wednesday 04 November 2009 11:36:38 Geoff Galitz wrote: > Here is a quote from the old nessusd man page: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >------------------ ____ Force the source IP of the connections established > by Nessus to __ checks need to fully establish a connection to the remote > host. This option is only useful if you have a multi-homed machine with > multiple public IP addresses that you would like to use instead of the > default one. Example : will make establish connections with a source IP of > one among those listed above. For this setup to work, the host running > nessusd should have multiple NICs with these IP addresses set > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >------------------- > > Experimenting with -S without those multiple NICs would probably yield > inconclusive results.
Totally agree. This is not about spoofing, this is about selecting the right source IP address if you have something like eth0, eth0:1, eth0:2 set up. If it doesn't work in this circumstance then it is broken and needs to be fixed. Tim -- Tim Brown <mailto:t...@openvas.org> <http://www.openvas.org/> _______________________________________________ Openvas-devel mailing list Openvas-devel@wald.intevation.org http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-devel
