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Network Scanning Cookbook
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Network Scanning Cookbook

by Sairam Jetty
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Target specification

Nmap provides multiple target specification options with which a user can mention subnets, individual IPs, IP ranges, and IP lists to be scanned. This will allow the user to scan specific hosts identified from the host discovery.

A sample complete syntax of Nmap is as follows:

Nmap -sS -sV -PN -T4 -oA testsmtp -p T:25 -v -r 192.168.1.*

As per the user requirements, once the required options and arguments are provided, the user can perform the scan and obtain the output. We will look at recipes on how to perform network scans using Nmap in the next chapter.

As a part of this chapter, we will be covering recipes on how to choose the correct software version for both Nmap and Nessus, along with their installation and removal. ...

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ISBN: 9781789346480