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Re: Binding nessus to a specific interface?

Subject: Re: Binding nessus to a specific interface?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:06:28 -0600
man nessusd

-S <ip[,ip2,...]>, --src-ip=<ip[,ip2,...]>
     Force the source IP of the connections established by Nessus to <ip> 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 : nessusd -S
192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2,192.168.1.3,192.168.1.4 will make nes-susd 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.

I found this on the nessusd manpage for Nessus 2.0.10 for FreeBSD, I couldn't
find this option on the manpage in the Nessus website, guess it's an outdated
copy... Well, this should help you with what you want to accomplish.

-oscar


Ok, I should have clarified my question a little better. Sorry...

When nessus is performing a scan, how do I specify which interface to
perform the scan from. I am not too concerned about which interface
nessus is serving client requests from (although I need to specify this
due to security reasons).

Thanks for your help guys, sorry for the lack of clarity.

-Wendell


On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 12:13, Steve Loughran wrote:
man nessusd

       -a <address>, --listen=<address>
              Tell  the  server to only listen to connections on the
address
<address> which is an IP, not a
              machine name. For instance, "nessusd -a 192.168.1.1" will
make
nessusd only listen to requests
              going  to 192.168.1.1 This option is useful if you are
running
nessusd on a gateway and if you
              don't want people on the outside to connect to your nessusd.

(Note: this isnt an up to date nessus install, so options may have
changed... yes, yes, slag me off later.. :)

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendell Smith" <wendels@castlebranch.com>
To: <nessus@list.nessus.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 4:45 PM
Subject: Binding nessus to a specific interface?


Hey all,

How would I tell nessus to bind to a specific interface? I don't see a
configuration parameter or runtime switch that empowers me with the
ability to do this.

Thanks,

Wendell



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