From: Joey Peloquin (joeyp@cotse.net)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2008 - 12:20:38 EST
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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