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Performance Tuning NMAP
From: Bill Petersen <bill.petersen () alcatel com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:18:18 -0600
Hello,A project I am working on will require me to scan over 1 million IPs monthly (yes, all owned by my company). I have acquired a dual Xeon 3GHz system with 4GB of RAM for the job. I plan to turn on -sV and -O to get version and OS information in addition to 'is the machine up' and general port information. It will be running Fedora Core 3.
My questions are: 1. How would you tune this system for the task? 2. What options would you turn on / off at compile time? 3. How would you tune nmap at run time for the task?In the past, threads within nmap have not helped me much. I have actually used a perl script to help me maximize the throughput by running up to 190 concurrent nmaps (on a similarly configured machine). I'd like to get away from that and have nmap take over the task. Any suggestions?
Thanks for your input. Regards, Bill -- Bill Petersen, CISSP Senior Information Security Analyst North American Information Security Group Alcatel USA, Plano, Texas 972-519-4249 Voice 972-519-4830 FAX Bill.Petersen () alcatel com
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