On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:50:00AM -0500, JHORVAT1@private wrote: > I am having issues somewhat similar to what Ravi was seeing. I want to enable > the "Ping the remost host" option to do an ICMP ping because I'm scanning > large subnets and want to move on quickly if something doesn't appear to be > up. The "Ping the remote host" option calls ping_host.nasl, and using > Ethereal I found what seems to be the problem. Nessus sends out an ICMP echo > request, but hosts never reply, apparently because the IP header checksum in > the ICMP packet is 0! The relevant part of ping_host.nasl is below (sorry if > the formatting is goofy): Which version of Nessus are you using ? Also, you should use the tcp ping method, it's way more efficient. _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list Nessus@private http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
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