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Re: Empty Scan Results that should not be empty

Subject: Re: Empty Scan Results that should not be empty
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:45:02 -0500
Does disabling ping/icmp speed up scanning at the cost or accuracy?


On 1/22/08, Renaud Deraison (lists) <deraison-lists@nessus.org> wrote:

On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Jason Luke wrote:

Well good. It's not me then. :)

As a follow up, how is it that nessus can't "ping" it when I can. I
can do an ICMP ping so I would assume then that that is not how
nessus is doing it. In which case, can I change how nessus pings it?

Basically, packet forgery does not work on this device -- Nessus can't
"hear" back what the remote host is sending.

A solution to this problem is to disable all the ping methods in your
scan policy -> Advanced -> Ping the remote host and disable TCP ping,
ARP ping and ICMP ping.



                              -- Renaud





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dg

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