On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:56:38AM -0600, eric wrote:
> I've received excellent comments back so far regarding the
> performance of nessus and how to increase performance. I'd like to
> know what types of port scanners folks enjoy using more; do you
> prefer an nmap synscan over the built-in synscan, is a tcp_connect()
> worth using, etc..
tcp connect() is really good if you are scanning an internal lan, while
a SYN scan is good if you scan a firewall'ed host.
I used to be a big SYN scan fan, as it's supposed to hurt less services,
but in practice many embedded devices just die because of it (printers
in particular)
-- Renaud
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