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Re: RFC - nmap "crawl" feature / script
From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:56:29 +0100
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Brandon Enright <> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:00:22 -0500 "DePriest, Jason R." <> wrote: ...snip...But before I start doing anything, has anyone else ever considered this a desirable feature? If so, has someone already written a script to handle it? Thank you. -JasonI've chatted with Fyodor about a similar idea involving host discovery via SNMP from the detected routers (hops) from a --traceroute. The idea is that most bigger organisations have routing gear for which you can extract the ARP/CAM table via SNMP to discover new hosts. If you learn about the local router for a host, a few SNMP queries later and you can have all the hosts in that VLAN, or even all the hosts for any VLAN routed out of that router. After really flushing the ideas out though we both agreed that while that ability could be very useful, it is best left to an external script. Nmap is a great _port_scanner_ but probably shouldn't have every darn networking task we can think of stuffed into it. One thing that /would/ be nice though is to expose --traceroute information to NSE so that a script can try to query the local router for the target's MAC address. IIRC this would require re-ordering NSE to come after --traceroute. Brandon
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- RFC - nmap "crawl" feature / script DePriest, Jason R. (Jul 08)
- Re: RFC - nmap "crawl" feature / script Eddie Bell (Jul 08)
- Re: RFC - nmap "crawl" feature / script Vladimir Mitrovic (Jul 08)
- Re: RFC - nmap "crawl" feature / script sara fink (Jul 08)
- Re: RFC - nmap "crawl" feature / script Brandon Enright (Jul 08)
- Re: RFC - nmap "crawl" feature / script DePriest, Jason R. (Jul 08)
- Re: RFC - nmap "crawl" feature / script DePriest, Jason R. (Jul 08)
- Re: RFC - nmap "crawl" feature / script DePriest, Jason R. (Jul 08)