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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook
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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

by Paulino Calderon
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
318 pages
6h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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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 ...
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