Re: Retina scans caused broadcast storms

[Fabrice Aubry <fabrice.aubry () wanadooportails com>]

In-Reply-To: <20041123183343.73950.qmail () web50001 mail yahoo com>

I've nerely crashed 25% of a class B subnet, and if I had waited to long every thing would have gone down.

Cisco Catalyst Switches did not like the scan.
Some options in Retina are much to agressive to be used 
on a production network.

Fine tuning Retina's Configuration is really necessary for live audits on production networks.

Fabrice Aubry
SysAdmin / Wanadoo Hosting

> 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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