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 Phone: 5255-5010-1680 FAX: 5255-5010-1601 Mobile: 5255-5409-6446 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.enterasys.com <http://www.enterasys.com/> "There is nothing more important than our Customers"
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