Bandwidth throttle w/ nessus

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Chris wrote:

> I know there is a way to limit the number of hosts and security checks per host that are run concurrently, but is there a way to limit the overall bandwidth Nessus uses to prevent choking limited bandwidth when scanning large numbers of remote machines?

If you appen to have a router with this option it would be the easiest
way. Our companies threatlab is linked to the internet router over a
serial link for this exact purpose. We can limit traffic by allocating
bandwidth as we see fit.

Hugo.

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