Re: Inconsistent scan results with multiple hosts

Thanks for your reply, it was pretty much spot-on. I stopped using VMWare
and started using a a real Fedora Core 5 box, and the problems have
disappeared. Let it be a lesson to future virtualization users: the warning
Nessus gives about abysmal performance also means abysmal results.

For future reference, I'm using VMWare Workstation 5.5.1 build-19175, VMWare
tools installed, and networking handled through NAT.

--Andrew

On 7/16/06, George A. Theall <theall@tenablesecurity.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 12:27:54PM -0400, Andrew Wang wrote:
>
> > I've installed Nessus 3.0.3 and NessusClient on a Fedora Core 5 box
> > running in VMWare (Windows XP host).
> ...
> > Is this just a limitation of Nessus? I'm not changing any configuration
> > options in between these scans except the target.
>
> I doubt it's a limitation of Nessus per se, but it might be related to
> the max_hosts setting currently in effect as well as where the targets
> are located in relation to your nessusd host.
>
> In addition, VMWare itself might be negatively affecting the results.
>
>
> George
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