RE: ideal OS distro for network scanning?

["Lyal Collins" <lyal.collins () key2it com au>]

For what its worth, I've had consistent results across freebsd, redhat 7, 8
and 9, fedora 2 and 3, suse 9.3 and 10, as well as knoppix-based liveCDs
over the past 4-5 years.

lyal
-----Original Message-----
From: offset [mailto:offset () svcroot net] 
Sent: Monday, 16 January 2006 3:58 AM
To: pen-test () securityfocus com
Subject: ideal OS distro for network scanning?


Greetings,

Looking for information on network mapping relative performance and accuracy
between different opensource OS distributions (ie. linux based (fedora,
redhat), bsd based (openbsd, freebsd)).

I like OpenBSD's security paranoia (dont want the scanner being
compromised), but I also understand that linux can be hardened as well, so
my second concern is the underlying OS skewing the results of a network scan
and the ability for the OS to stay out of the way of the scan results.

Regards and thanks in advance.

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