Another unexpected Zone Protection Profile doing it’s thing – in this case sending a ping from an end-user device (such as Windows/macOS computer) to an IP interface (gateway) on a Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Firewall was coming back with a response, but requests from HPE ProCurve (Aruba) switches (2920/2530) appeared to disappear into oblivion with no response. A little… Read more
Tag: PING
Set OpenVAS to only scan hosts that reply to PINGs
In my environment all of our network connected devices are configured to respond to PINGs; this mainly comes about from using PRTG Network Monitor to confirm that devices and services are up even in the most simple of fashions. The same also applies to client PCs which through Group Policy are configured to reply to PING. Thus to save OpenVAS… Read more