Re: Nessus will work on MPLS

[Paul Melson <pmelson () gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:32 AM, informationhacker08
<informationhacker08 () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello pen tester dudes
>
> Is NMAP /Nessus or any other Scanners will work on MPLS or MPLS VPN

MPLS is layer 2 (or somewhere between layers 2 & 3), so as long as the
layer 3 protocol being used by the network you're scanning over is IP,
then Nessus, NMap, and probably every other IP scanning tool out there
will work just fine over it.

If your question was what kind of tools can be used in a penetration
test against the MPLS network itself (e.g. can I spoof labels to
inject or sniff traffic from other client networks), then NMap and
Nessus won't work for this.

PaulM

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