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| Subject: | Re: using Nessus 3.2 on a Novell Netware 6.5 network |
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| Date: | Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:29:10 -0400 |
Kelly, Jim wrote:
Are there any caveats using Nessus on a Novell network?
In the past, users with older, unpatched Novell networks suffered a nasty denial of service issue that could crash some of their servers. This resulted in Tenable adding a 'Do not scan fragile devices' configuration option that allowed for early detection of Novell devices in a scan and then stop scanning that device. If you specifically want to scan Novell devices, you need to enable the option 'Scan Novell Netware hosts'.
Netware 6.5 uses TCP/IP, I believe in addition to the old IPX/SPX.
Nessus only audits Novell over TCP/IP, not IPX/SPX.
Has anyone had any experience scanning a Netware 6.5 network? Can you share whatever caveats you might have?
Please check the archives of this email list.
Can Nessus deal with this kind of network?
Yes, unless it is 100% IPX/SPX which we still run into occasionally, even in 2008. Ron Gula Tenable Network Security _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list Nessus@list.nessus.org http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
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