From: Derick Anderson (danderson@vikus.com)
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 07:38:31 EDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: barcajax@gmail.com [mailto:barcajax@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:09 PM
> To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Assessing a machine with 2 NICs
>
> Lets say we have a machine running critical business
> applications connected to the enterprise network on 2 NICs.
> From an assessment/audit point of view, is it necessary to
> scan both NICs using assessment tools like NMap and Nessus?
> Will both scan results produce the same findings (as in same
> ports and services open)?
> Does the OS or applications influence the detection of
> ports/services on different NICs on the same physical machine?
>
The machine doesn't have to run the same services on both NICs. In my
shop we have several machines with two or more virtual interfaces (one
NIC, but responds to several IPs) for the purpose of hosting SSL sites.
So you might see ports 80 and 443 open on the first IP but only 443 on
the second. Having said that, most machines with two physical NICs have
them for redundancy and/or speed and by default most services bind to
all available IPs.
What you will see with a scan depends entirely on the service
configurations on the machine. I wouldn't think the OS would do things
differently on separate NICs but you never know.
Derick Anderson
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