Creating Packet Traces of Nessus Scans
by Ron Gula on September 10, 2007
Nessus 3 UNIX scanners have the ability to save all of their generated packets as a convenient libpcap compatible file. This means you can save your scans and view them under applications such as TCPDUMP or Wireshark. Please note that this feature is not available on Nessus 4.
Why is this Useful?
There are many reasons to do this.