Re: Trying to decide on hardware for Nessus

[Renaud Deraison <deraison@nessus.org>]

On Dec 21, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Renaud Deraison wrote:

> On Dec 21, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Zate Berg wrote:
>
> > I am trying to decide on a Sun Server (current supported platform  
> > here at work) to run Nessus on.  Will be running Solaris 10 aswell.
> > Whats the consensus on something like their T2000 server?  Its a  
> > single proc, 8 core, 32 Threads server.  Will nessus thread nicely  
> > on that?  I know its only single proc but its 8 cores, each core  
> > has 4 threads so in effect its almost like having 32 single thread  
> > procs.
> On the _paper_, Nessus should work very well on such a system.
>
> However, we've had reports of a bug (that Sun is aware of)  in the  
> network driver of the box. Basically, under certain circumstances,  
> a scan will crash the system.
And here is the bug I'm referring to :

<http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6495829>


                                -- Renaud


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