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RE: Retina scans caused broadcast storms
From: "Piskovatskov, Alexey" <Alexey.Piskovatskov () bindview com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:14:44 -0600
It can be caused by any scanner in cases of running it across subnets. Routers (especially old ones) are getting overloaded by the requests the scanner is sending. You may want to observe router's utilization while running the scan or IPs discovery tasks. Best, Alexey -----Original Message----- From: dale ball [mailto:dale_ball () yahoo com] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:34 PM To: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: Retina scans caused broadcast storms Has anyone ever caused a full blown broadcast storm by using the Retina Security Scanner. Its looks as if I may caused a severe slow down on a network recently and think the scanner may have caused it. What I am trying to determine is whether existing problems in the switching enviroment may have been exaserbated by the use of the scanner. Anybody else ever experience these sorts of issues with Retina? dale __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
Current thread:
- Retina scans caused broadcast storms dale ball (Nov 24)
- RE: Retina scans caused broadcast storms Rob Shein (Nov 27)
- Re: Retina scans caused broadcast storms DokFLeed (Nov 27)
- RE: Retina scans caused broadcast storms Ben Nagy (Nov 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Retina scans caused broadcast storms Steven Trewick (Nov 27)
- RE: Retina scans caused broadcast storms Piskovatskov, Alexey (Nov 27)
- RE: Retina scans caused broadcast storms Evans, Arian (Nov 27)
- Re: Retina scans caused broadcast storms Fabrice Aubry (Nov 27)
- Re: Retina scans caused broadcast storms no name (Nov 27)
- Re: Retina scans caused broadcast storms William Allsopp (Nov 27)