On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Renaud Deraison wrote: | On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:05:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > They asked if we could do Wake-on-lan prior to the scan. | | Is it really Nessus's job ? I mean, this would be a great feature, but | maybe you want to write a small "wake-on-lan" scanner that would do the | job. Otherwise, assuming that nessusd _did_ send a wake-on-lan before | the scan, it would have to wait ~ 60 seconds, sometimes much more, to be | sure that every host has had the time to boot up properly...
Spawn a sub process! With IPC! Send the wake, add hosts to "the list" when they come up. If the list of hosts are exhausted, kill the child and note that we couldn't wake xxx hosts. Or, just sit back and have another drink.
