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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:56:26 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
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Subject: Re: nessus 2.2.4 under cygwin
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tim nelson wrote:

> nessusd runs and I can even connect to the daemon, but
> if I attempt to do a scan outside of my machine I get
> nothing.  However if I am scanning 127.0.0.1  all is
> fine.

I don't know if this affects you or not but recent versions of Windows
(XP SP2? don't remember) require admin privileges to send raw packets.

Brian

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