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RE: scan based on mac address
From: Aaron Leininger <rilian4 () hotmail com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 14:31:22 -0700
I don't think it is possible...however, if the target computer is within your home network or corporate network *AND* is running windows, you can run a netbios scan (one tool that can do this is nbtscan: http://www.inetcat.net/software/nbtscan.html) very quickly across your whole network and dump the results to a text file and search the text file for your MAC address (or use grep to filter if you are running the scan from a unix type machine). Then run an nmap scan of your choice against the IP address that matches your search. Note: A netbios scan will find unix (linux, bsd, OSX, etc) machines that are running the windows file sharing protocol(Samba) as well but they (wisely, IMO) do not broadcast their MAC address in response to this scan. Only true windows machines or Windows Virtual Machines will return their mac address in this manner. You can run an nmap scan on your whole subnet and usually get the MAC addresses back for the entire subnet but you can't get them back outside your subnet with nmap otherwise. I am by no means the most experienced person on this list. Hopefully others may chime in with some further suggestions or refinements Aaron
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 21:30:27 +0300 From: sara.fink () gmail com To: nmap-dev () insecure org Subject: scan based on mac address Is it possible to perform a scan based on mac address only? I don't have the ip. _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- Re: scan based on mac address, (continued)
- Re: scan based on mac address John Mason Jr (Aug 08)
- Re: scan based on mac address Michael Pattrick (Aug 08)
- Re: scan based on mac address sara fink (Aug 08)
- Re: scan based on mac address Michael Pattrick (Aug 08)
- Re: scan based on mac address sara fink (Aug 08)
- Re: scan based on mac address eldraco (Aug 09)
- Re: scan based on mac address sara fink (Aug 10)
- Re: scan based on mac address Brandon Enright (Aug 11)
- Re: scan based on mac address sara fink (Aug 08)
- Re: scan based on mac address Brandon Enright (Aug 08)
- Re: scan based on mac address sara fink (Aug 08)