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Nessus 3.2 beta (3.1.3) question

Subject: Nessus 3.2 beta (3.1.3) question
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:45:21 +0200
Regards,

I recently installed Nessus 3.1.3 on a SuSE 10 box and have tried fiddling with some of the new, nice to have parameters:

global.max_scans = 5

# Maximum of simulteanous TCP sessions between all scans :
global.max_simult_tcp_sessions = 1000
# Maximum of simultaneous TCP sessions per scan :
max_simult_tcp_sessions = 50
# Maximum of simultaneous TCP sessions per scanned host :
host.max_simult_tcp_sessions = 10

When doing test along with the firewall admin, he reported an approximate 8000 session increase when trying to scan across the firewall monitored. The CPU load was also heavy. The load normalised when I terminated the scan. I cannot relate this apparent session increase to the parameters above. Am I missing something here ?

Knut


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