Re: Large scan, GUI seems hung

[Jonathan Cran <jcran () metasploit com>]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Sean Carolan <scarolan () gmail com> wrote:
> In practical terms, what's the maximum number of hosts/networks that
> can be scanned using the GUI tool?  I submitted a fairly large number
> of /24 networks for scanning, and the "Launch Scan" button is still
> spinning.  One of the machine's CPUs is pegged at 100%, so it looks
> like it's doing *something*.

We've benchmarked it against networks of ~10k hosts, with ~3k up.
Anything larger than that, i'd personally recommend you tweak and use
standalone nmap / import, if only to have an immediate backup of the
scan data.


jcran

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