I'd add this to the faq too. I went through this issue some time ago, and my only conclusion was the progress bar fills proportionally to the # of ports being scanned relative to the time each port is probed. Of course this is an approximation and when the scan goes slow, the bar fills up long before the end of the nmap scan.
best rgds Cristobal Michel Arboi wrote: > > Tony Howlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am using nessus in doing some assessments of large networks. I > > have noticed that nessus often "hangs" at the end of the nmap portion > > of the test for long periods of time. > > [A question for the FAQ?] > There is no way to know how many % of the work have already been done > by nmap. So the slider is fake: every X seconds, it moves of Y % of > the remaining space. So it slows down little by little. > This trick comes from MacOS. > The problem is that X is too small or Y too big. > > -- > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG Public keys: http://michel.arboi.free.fr/pubkey.txt > http://michel.arboi.free.fr/ http://arboi.da.ru/ > FAQNOPI de fr.comp.securite : http://faqnopi.da.ru/ -- Cristobal Soto Y. ICSA.cl - The e-risk security company - http://www.icsa.cl
