Re: port scan speed control

or if you scan a box with multiple IPs all at the same time, which is what
it is in my case. I don't want to track the ips :)

On Feb 11, 2008 11:43 AM, Michel Arboi <mikhail@nessus.org> wrote:

> Le Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:20:13 -0800,
> "Doug Nordwall" <raleel@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> > Do any of the 3.x series of nessus scanners provide for speed control
> > of the port scan portion of the scan? I am aware of the X machines at
> > a time, Y checks at a time, but last I had checked, that did not
> > control the nessus tcp scanner speed.
>
> With Nessus3, you can limit the number of parallel TCP sessions. Apart
> from this, nothing changed for nessus_tcp_scanner between Nessus2 and
> Nessus3.
> The maximum parallelism is mainly computed from max_checks (what you
> called "Y"). safe_checks reduces it.
> max_checks is clamped down to 5 for this computation.
>
> Note that the maximum parallelism is only reached when you scan a
> firewalled machine.



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