I've seen the same behavior. Previously, I had always attributed it to a
difference between the port scan and the plugin checks.
On 4/17/07, Knut Hellebø <Knut.Hellebo@nho.hydro.com> wrote:
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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