Nmap Live Host Discovery - Notes
Nmap Live Host Discovery - Notes The following shows steps that  Nmap  carries out to discover the systems that are online before port-scanning. This stage is crucial because trying to port-scan offline systems will only waste time and create unnecessary noise on the network. The ff. presents the different approaches that  Nmap  uses to discover live hosts. In particular: ARP  scan: This scan uses ARP requests to discover live hosts ICMP scan: This scan uses ICMP requests to identify live hosts TCP /UDP ping scan: This scan sends packets to TCP ports and UDP ports to determine live hosts. Let's also introduce two scanners,  arp-scan  and  masscan , and explain how they overlap with part of Nmap’s host discovery. We will use  Nmap  to discover systems and services actively. Nmap was created by Gordon Lyon (Fyodor), a network security expert and open source programmer. It was released in 1997. Nmap, short for Network Mapper, is free, open-...