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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

You're reading from Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook Want to master Nmap and its scripting engine? Then this book is for you – packed with practical tasks and precise instructions, it's a comprehensive guide to penetration testing and network monitoring. Security in depth.

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849517485

Length 318 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Lua

Tools

Nmap

Concepts

Networking

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Nmap Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Network Exploration

3. Gathering Additional Host Information

4. Auditing Web Servers

5. Auditing Databases

6. Auditing Mail Servers

7. Scanning Large Networks

8. Generating Scan Reports

9. Writing Your Own NSE Scripts

References

Index

Discovering hosts with ARP ping scans

Ping scans are used by penetration testers and system administrators to determine if hosts are online. ARP ping scans are the most effective wayof detecting hosts in LAN networks.

Nmap really shines by using its own algorithm to optimize this scanning technique. The following recipe goes through the process of launching an ARP ping scan and its available options.

How to do it...

Open your favorite terminal and enter the following command:

# nmap -sP -PR 192.168.1.1/24

You should see the list of hosts that responded to the ARP requests:

# nmap -sP -PR 192.168.1.1/24 


Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.102 
Host is up. 
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.103 
Host is up (0.0066s latency). 
MAC Address: 00:16:6F:7E:E0:B6 (Intel) 
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.254 
Host is up (0.0039s latency). 
MAC Address: 5C:4C:A9:F2:DC:7C (Huawei Device Co.) 
Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (3 hosts up) scanned in 14.94 seconds

How it works...

The arguments -sP -PR 192.168.1...

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