I agree that the loss of any kind of status whatsoever is not good. Even if the completion level accuracy was not high, at least you'd know that the scans are progressing and something is not hung.
Kevin Davis What could possibly go wrong? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:30 PM Subject: RE: your mail > Agreed. I thought of that as I was writting the orginal e-mail, that > ther would be people out there that for some reason or another just > plain wouldn't want that and they would need the option to not have > it. > > I guess the point being that that with as little traffic as possible it > would be really, valuable to know that an attack is > > 1) still alive and not dead > 2) that it has progressed (preferrably by some unit of measure - > such as an %) > > Having the attack a black-box that starts and may or may not > finish sometime might work for command-line/cron jobs, but doesn't > work for the folks using the UIs. > > George > > On 5 Mar 2003 at 11:57, Discini, Sonny wrote: > > > In theory this is a good idea but I think if it does make it into the > > code it should be an option. Just imagine the traffic it will generate > > if it has to continuously poll the nessus engine in order to get this > > info. > > > > My two cents... > > -- > George Boutwell, > Programmer II - Valley Hope Association > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
