Cheers Matt,
I only have 2 full open ports on the XP box, so no, half open ports is not
the problem.
Everything is working exactly as it is supposed to, including XP SP2!!
(AMAZING)
I just wanted to cut down on the time it takes for the portscan to wait for
a reply from a scan (connection) request to a port, i.e. Nessus checks port
15550 and it takes 180 seconds to timeout with no reply. I want to reduce
that to 40 seconds to timeout.
Cheers Brennon
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Carlson [mailto:mjc8804@bjc.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:07 PM
To: brennonwilliams@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: timeouts...
If this is the problem I am thinking it s (half-open ports in windows XP
SP2), the patch is located at
http://www.lvllord.de/?url=downloads<=en#4226patch
Download it, and change the allowed number of half-open ports to
something about 100. If you do P2P (thats bad mmmkay?) raise it even
further.
This was a "feature" introduced by SP2, because they say the only
reason to have half-open ports is to use "hacker" tools.
If you need any more help, feel free to ask.
Matt Carlson
(314) 362-0870
4353 Clayton Avenue
Mailstop : 90-68-145
Saint Louis, MO 63110
http://issecurity.carenet.org
"Brennon Williams" <brennonwilliams@yahoo.co.uk> 12/28/2004 7:34:58
AM >>>
Can anyone tell me what preference setting controls the timeout of the
port
scanner?
As Eric pointed out to me, XP is just playing with the scanner and
making it
wait until it times out, causing a really long portscan.
I just want to reduce this.
Cheers All
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