Re: [PEN-TEST] Any way to speed up mapping for penetration testing?

[Shoten <shoten () starpower net>]

You could parallelize your scans, having multiple machines each handle a
different part of the address range.  Be careful though...if you parallelize
your scan TOO much, you could cause a resource starvation issue (or
something akin to it) in their firewall.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Molen" <rpmolen () MAIL IT-PROTECT COM>
To: <PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: [PEN-TEST] Any way to speed up mapping for penetration testing?


> Am currently working with a customer to map their network prior to
> penetration/vulnerability testing using NMap.  Customer doesn't allow Ping
> and wants 65000 ports tested.  Since we can't Ping, NMap takes a long time
> to test a single host resulting in a very long testing period.  We've
tried
> setting a time-out value of 30 seconds but end up missing hosts with this
> value.  Has anyone had an experience like this and if so, any
> recommendations to efficiently map a network without Ping?
>
> thanks