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Dion,
Thanks for your information earlier re: the category setting
inside the NASL scripts. That was very useful. I agree that we do
need an option to operate the plugins by category.
I'm clearly just beginning to learn the intricacies of Nessus,
but I definitely feel this feature that you suggested needs to be
implemented. Preferably it would handle both ranges (1-20) and a
comma delimited list.
Regarding the inefficiency if implemented in the NASL script,
that may be true, but people are free not to use the feature.
Certainly, I think mostly a minority will use this feature. It seems
mostly useful for those attempting to look through a firewall (ala
FireWalk).
Personally, I found that understanding Nessus, NASL, the
nessusrc file, and my own particular requirements were the most
important factors in speeding the tests. By tuning everything I
could, removing unneeded checks, I took test time against a /24
network with only 11 hosts from 11 hours to 5 minutes.
I think most people will use similar methods. So, NASL is
probably fine for now.
Just MHO.
Thanks,
- --Randy
- ->-----Original Message-----
- ->From: Dion Stempfley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
- ->Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:14 PM
- ->To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
- ->Subject: TCP_Ping modification
- ->
- ->
- ->I am going to make a modification to the tcp ping capability
- ->to support a
- ->list of destination ports.
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