On Thu Aug 18 2005 at 09:33, Fengwei wrote: > I downloaded the nessus source code and have built on cygwin > successfully (actually unknown, that's why I'm testing it)
I did this a long time ago, before NeWT existed, because in one special case, I needed Nessus on Windows. IIRC: - C plugins will not work, so you'll need a way to portscan the targets. Now, the best way is probably to use the NASL nmap wrapper, but when I did that, it was still a C wrapper so I rewrote a port scanner in NASL. - worse, find_service is still in C, so you must rewrite it in NASL. The result will be slow as NASL does not provide any way to multithread the script. Without find_service, the scan report is worthless. - a couple of other C plugins will have to be rewritten or removed. - I don't remember exactly, but I think there was a problem with raw sockets. Either they were not reliable, or needed some hacking to work with WinPcap. BTW, I suspect that you ran into a problem with ping_host.nasl - and last but not least, as Cygwin emulates Unix fork, the resulting software is *very* slow. IMHO, running Nessus on Cygwin is rather brain damaged now. Unless this is a programming challenge :) -- http://arboi.da.ru/ PGP key ID : 0x0BBABA91 - 0x1320924F0BBABA91 Fingerprint: 1048 B09B EEAF 20AA F645 2E1A 1320 924F 0BBA BA91 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
