Sound Solutions, Inc.
8400 Highland Dr.
Wausau, WI 54401
Tel: 715-842-7665
Fax: 715-842-7620
Will do...running qualys scans now, and then I'll post up what they find
and what openvas finds....

Thanks!!

TP

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Reinke [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 7:03 PM
To: Tom Powers
Cc: Scott Damron; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Openvas-discuss] Firewall scanning

It would be useful (even if you send it off list) to provide info on
what OpenVAS is missing. That would help folks improve it, should it
be an issue of tests missing as opposed to a misconfigured scanner.

Thomas

Tom Powers wrote:
> Sound Solutions, Inc.
> 8400 Highland Dr.
> Wausau, WI 54401
> Tel: 715-842-7665
> Fax: 715-842-7620
> Yeah...but the Qualys scanner we use does find stuff on that
firewall....so I'm thinking I have something setup wrong on my OpenVAS 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Damron [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:24 AM
> To: Tom Powers
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Openvas-discuss] Firewall scanning
> 
> Not finding anything on an external firewall is generally a good
thing...
> 
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tom Powers
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Anyone have any good tips for scanning firewalls from the outside.
I'm 
>> at a remote office, trying to scan the firewall at our main office 
>> with OpenVAS
>> 3 on ubuntu 10.04.
>>
>>  Internal scans are AWESOME and find more than I though they would. 
>> External scans (with default settings) against the firewall's
external 
>> IP addresses return absolutely nothing.
>>
>> I am accessing the home office firewall, from the outside, using the 
>> branch office internet connection (which is seperate from the 
>> network). The home office firewall external addresses to not respond 
>> to a ping (they are configured that way)...and I think that may be
the 
>> issue for the portscanners?
>>
>> Any good configuration tips to get this to go?
>> All help is appreciated
>> Thanks
>> Tom P
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