Re: nessus and nmap

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hack erk wrote:
> This question is a slight deviation from nessus so please bear with me:-)!!
>  
> I found that port scanning made nessus very slow so I did port scanning 
> with nmap and fed the result to nessus. Now everything seems to be 
> working fine... But I had a doubt about the way nmap works...
>  
> I had specified the minimum parallelism (ie minimum number of ports to 
> be scanned) for nmap as 100. There is no option in nmap to set the 
> number of hosts to be tested in parallel. So how does nmap work... for 
> example in case of a /19 network with lets say 2000 live hosts will it 
> test atleast 100 ports of all the 2000 hosts leading to atleast 200000 
> tests in parallel?
>  
> This is purely a question about nmap... sorry about that... can somebody 
> help?
>  
> Thanks
>  
> HKR
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