Actually nessus is an intrusion scanner. You'd be better off with a port scanner
like nmap for testing a firewall.
www.nmap.org
Kurt Seifried, seifried@securityportal.com
Securityportal - your focal point for security on the 'net
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From: "Jan Räther"
Also, I've heard that there are some online web sites that offer basic/trivial security scanning? Ie. Apparently some security consultancy sites can scan your box remotely to look for the more famous/obvious/common security holes. Who/what are they and are they worth using?
if you want to test your firewall, you should check nessus (www.nessus.org)....
Jan
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