HELLO, I hope someone can help

 

I am selling nessus solution to a customer for use with our NAC
controller.

> 

> This customer has 2000 users, like 1000 concurrent assessed systems 

> are expected, how many servers and what characteristics would be
perfect?

> What would be the minimum server number and characteristics?

> 

> I read this but if its true (I guess) then I would need like 10 

> servers with 4gb ram, P4 4ghz!!!!:

> 

""""" It is not easy to give a bandwith estimate for a Nessus run, you
will 

> probably need to make your own counts. However, assuming you test 

> 65536 TCP ports. This will require at least a single packet per port 

> that is at least 40 bytes large. Add 14 bytes for the ethernet header 

> and you will send 65536 * (40 + 14) = 3670016 bytes. So for just 

> probing all TCP ports we may need a multitude of this as nmap will try


> to resend the packets twice if no response is received.""""

> 

""""> A very rough estimate is that a full scan for UDP, TCP and RPC as
well 

> as all NASL scripts may result in 8 to 32 MB wrth of traffic per 

> scanned host."""

> 

>  

> 

So the questions are:

 

-          What requirements for the servers (hardware) and how many
REAL MAXIMUM CONCURRENT HOSTS would it support?

 

Thanks very much

Consuelo   Rodriguez
Engineering Manager Mexico

Enterasys Networks
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