Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas?

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:42:03PM +0100, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> o Efficient network topology mapping.  Give Nmap (or Zenmap or even a
>   separate tool) a large network range or multiple ranges, and it will
>   automatically and intelligently determine the network topology
>   with a minimal number of probes / in minimal scan time, i.e. don't
>   do a full traceroute on each and every IP address.  There are many
>   ways to cut down the number of probes required versus the naïve
>   approach, including making educated guesses at subnetting, and
>   intelligently verify those using a minimal number of probes (think
>   binary search through possible/likely subnet layouts).

Vladimir Mitrovic, a Summer of Code student last year, wrote a prototype
that I think matches what you describe.

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q1/0409.html
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q1/att-0409/samplescan_gif

The original idea was to build it into Zenmap, but it was never
implemented owing to time constraints with other projects. Is this the
kind of thing you were thinking of?

David Fifield

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