Scanning IPs with masscan

Masscan is an amazing tool. It is the fastest port scan tool available, and it has been claimed that it can scan the entire internet when it transmits at the speed of 10 million packets per second.

It is similar to Nmap, but it does not support and default to the port scan – all ports must be specified using -p.

In this recipe, we will learn about the usage of Masscan.

How to do it...

1. Masscan is simple to use. We can begin a scan of a network by using the following command:

masscan 192.168.1.0/24 -p 80,443,23  

We can also specify the packet rate by using -max-rate. By default, the rate is 100 packets per second.