> Scans on a local subnet (nmap -sT -p 1-65535) taking 7 hours or more. > > The built-in nessus port scanner does the same.
Hmmmm, something _definately_ wrong there. On my LAN, using your command line above (from a 3.7-STABLE host to a 3.6-STABLE host): Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1309.464 seconds real 21m49.547s user 0m1.609s sys 0m6.977s Benny -- "Now, that next spring you find in your garage a creature that looks like a cross-bred badger and anaconda. A badgerconda." -- bash.org