I did set the target as 'consider alive', but it still didn't scan the host
on the other side of the tunnel.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Eero Volotinen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> as I said before, you need to set target alive test to 'consider alive'
> (this is feature of openvas 8) or modify scan config to remove ping alive
> test.
>
> Eero
>
> 2015-11-24 19:52 GMT+02:00 Tianyi Yang <[email protected]>:
>
>> I ran nmap in the terminal using all kinds of discovery methods that I
>> know, e.g. SYN ping, ACK ping, UDP ping and ICMP ping, the probed host was
>> shown as dead for each of these.
>>
>> However, when simply run "ping host-ip" (which is basically ICMP probe),
>> it worked fine.
>>
>> So I am wondering if bad configuration of nmap caused all the problems?
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> TY
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Eero Volotinen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You should use following nmap settings with root account (on openvas
>>> machine)
>>>
>>> nmap -P0 -p- ip.address
>>>
>>> that mean -P0 = consider host alive, -p- = full tcp scan  ..
>>>
>>> and same with vpn connection. if results are different on nmap scan then
>>> problem is not on openvas machine. Then it's related to your network
>>> configuration, firewall settings or routing.
>>>
>>> Eero
>>>
>>> 2015-11-24 19:26 GMT+02:00 Tianyi Yang <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> Thank you for the good suggestions!
>>>>
>>>> 1. I tested setting target as consider alive, full tcp scan and full
>>>> and fast and tried again to scan over VPN, the results are exactly the same
>>>> as before and no improvement.
>>>>
>>>> 2. I tried probing the target host with nmap over VPN, it showed "0
>>>> hosts up". So nmap showed the same unwanted results as openvas. Any
>>>> suggestions on how to make changes? Thanks a lot!
>>>>
>>>> TY
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Eero Volotinen <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It's really hard to guess all your settings and configurations.
>>>>>
>>>>> please set target to consider alive, full tcp scan and full and fast
>>>>> and try again. you should also try scan same target using nmap and compare
>>>>> results.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Eero
>>>>>
>>>>> 2015-11-23 19:59 GMT+02:00 Tianyi Yang <[email protected]>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was scanning a same device over VPN and through direct connect with
>>>>>> exactly the same configurations, and found the results are essentially
>>>>>> different.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The results over VPN only catch 5 Logs in the following, i.e.
>>>>>> 3com switch2hub (general/tcp) (Log)
>>>>>> OS fingerprinting (general/tcp) (Log)
>>>>>> ICMP Timestamp Detection (general/tcp) (Log)
>>>>>> Traceroute (general/tcp) (Log)
>>>>>> CPE Inventory (general/tcp) (Log)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, in the results when connect directly between the scanned
>>>>>> device and the scanner host, 2 High and 11 Logs are found. In addition to
>>>>>> those listed above, there are:
>>>>>> Multiple NetGear ProSafe Switches Information Disclosure
>>>>>> Vulnerability (80/tcp) (High)
>>>>>> Report default community names of the SNMP Agent (161 tcp) (High)
>>>>>> HTTP Server type and version (80/tcp) (Log)
>>>>>> Services (80/tcp) (Log)
>>>>>> Web mirroring (80/tcp) (Log)
>>>>>> Directory Scanner (80/tcp) (Log)
>>>>>> wapiti (NASL wrapper) (80/tcp) (Log)
>>>>>> An SNMP Agent is running (161/udp) (Log)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We see that the job over VPN has only results in locations
>>>>>> "general/tcp". And I further found that the VPN results were independent 
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> the port list, which means even if we specifies an EMPTY port list, the
>>>>>> outcome is exactly the same. And I read the logs on the scanned device 
>>>>>> site
>>>>>> and found only ports, e.g. TCP 22 and UDP 69 were probed. However, the
>>>>>> requested ports like TCP 80 and UDP 161 were never probed over VPN.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone have insights what's wrong with my scan
>>>>>> jobs/setup/configs over VPN? I appreciate it!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TY
>>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>
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