Re: Pentesting using Vista?

[Joey Peloquin <joeyp () cotse net>]

Sat Jagat Singh wrote:
[snip]
> Other than the apparent likelihood that all your work
> will be toast, there's also a limitation, introduced
> by M$ with XP SP2 and presumably still present in
> Vista, on the number of socket simultaneous
> connections.  This makes it less than ideal to run
> Nessus on for one thing.  Other vuln scanners may or
> may not have a similar issue.  If you do want to run
> Nessus, Tenable has some specific configuration
> guidance to make it functional.

Yes, still there in Vista.  By default, the connection limit is 25 in 
Ultimate, 2 in Home.  At your own risk, follow the advice in the following 
blog to open it up;

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/09/
windows-vista-tcpipsys-connection-limit-patch-for-event-id-4226/

-jp

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