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[Renaud Deraison]

On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:10, Olivier Vigneresse wrote:
>
> Now, I know for a fact that the host is not dead, which in my mind  
> is further confirmed by the fact that labrea.nasl and  
> ping_host.nasl did not report the problem – I’ve increased the  
> timeouts in nessusd.conf, but with no success.

There are bugs with the bpf sharing program which is there to  
compensate for the lack of bpf's on an OpenBSD system. When it does  
not work, it may report some hosts are dead as it can't receive the  
replies to 'pings' sent to them. The workaround is to create at least  
42 bpfs (100 recommended) and recompile Nessus.


					-- Renaud