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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 00:44:58 -0000
There are bugs with the bpf sharing program which is there to compensate
for the lack of bpf's on an 

OpenBSD system. When it does not work, it may report some hosts are dead
as it can't receive the 

replies to 'pings' sent to them. The workaround is to create at least 42
bpfs (100 recommended) and 

recompile Nessus. 

 
Renaud,
 
Thanks for the tip - I did just that - MAKEDEV a few more bpf's and
recompiled the whole suite and it works fine. As I intend to run a few
nessus jobs through cron, is there some rule of thumbs on how many BPF's
should be configured per concurrent nessus process / host tested /
concurrent pluggin?
 
Many thanks once more for the hand,
 
Olivier

 

 

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