RE: Retina scans caused broadcast storms
From: Piskovatskov, Alexey (Alexey.Piskovatskov_at_bindview.com)
Date: 11/24/04
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:14:44 -0600 To: "dale ball" <dale_ball@yahoo.com>, <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
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
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