Usually port scanning takes a bit long time, depending on firewall
settings. If udp scan is enabled, then it can take very long time.

you can strace scanning process like this:

ps aux | grep nmap

strace -f -p PIDOFNMAP or like strace -f -p PIDOFNMAP -e connect (if using
tcp connect scan..)

Eero

2015-09-17 10:13 GMT+03:00 Benoît Allard <[email protected]>:

> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:20:30 -0500
> Mike Michalak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am performing an audit on a network with a MikroTek router.
> >
> > Any scan that I perform sits at 1% or 2%, but never advances.
> >
> > Any thoughts on this?  Is the router dropping or blocking the traffic?
> >
> > Also, is there a way to do a stealth scan?
>
> There is no way to explicitly perform a stealth scan. Best you can do
> is I believe limit your scans to one host and one NVT concurrently.
>
> Please keep in mind that OpenVAS is not designed to be a Pen-tester
> tool, but rather a monitoring solution, as such the usual answer to
> your trouble is to configure your router in such a way that it
> explicitly allow all traffic related to your OpenVAS machine(s).
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
> Ben.
>
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