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Re: high latency connections

Subject: Re: high latency connections
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:14:25 +0200
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:17:03 -0700
"Doug Nordwall" <raleel@gmail.com> wrote:

does anyone have any issues I should be aware of when scanning over
high (~1sec) latency connections? Sadly, I doubt I'll be able to
reduce this.

Increase read_timeout (nessusd.conf or your policy) and the timeouts
for find_service.nasl (preferences). The default is 5 s IIRC, it might
be too small if packets are lost.

If the throughput is sufficient, increase max_checks -- although it
probably does not make much sense to go over 6 or 8. If the throughput
is limited, then you cannot do that and your scan will be slow.
Is this connection reliable and is the RTT stable?

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