nmap, is an open source tool for network exploration and security auditing.

Discover your neighboring machines

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January 10th, 2008 mysurface

Is there any tools that allow me to discover my neighboring machines that hook up to the same LAN switch like mine?
The simplest way I can do is use ping, I can send a broadcast packet to everyone in a subnet, so that they can response back. Let say I am in subnet of [...]

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A simple tutorial for network scanning software (nmap)

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November 5th, 2007 mysurface

Nmap is an open source network scanning software, it could help one to investigate simple network issues and also it may be use as a security vulnerability assessment tools. Nmap support a lots of options, when you type

nmap –help

The list of nmap options could not even feed a page of virtual terminal, which sometime it [...]

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