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Re: Exporting Topology
From: Max <nmap () webwizarddesign com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:24:14 -0400
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Patrick Lui<plui31 () yahoo com> wrote:
I'm looking for a way to find all the network devices. I understand that nmap can do this but what I want to get also is the associations/relationships between the devices. For example, if it finds a router/switch, it can tell me which devices are connected to it. This is similar to the Topology view in Zenmap but is there a way to export it as text? Thanks!
Patrick, SNMP discovery might be more what you are looking for as with it you can query a network devices' ARP cache and vendor-specific peering tables (for example CDP with Cisco) to let you map out a network. There are a variety of free and commercial tools that will help you do this. If the node with nmap on it is attached to a device implementing a vendor-specific discovery protocol like CDP then one can just listen to a network interface in promiscuous mode and intercept discovery packets from the device (unless the admin has turned off discovery broadcasts for the interface) to determine which port on the network device the nmap host is attached to. but that is just one hop :p. Would certainly be a neat feature for nmap for it to be able to use that to tell the person running the scan this information. - Max _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- Exporting Topology Patrick Lui (Jul 17)
- Re: Exporting Topology David Fifield (Jul 22)
- Re: Exporting Topology william.bathurst (Jul 22)
- Re: Exporting Topology Max (Jul 22)
- Re: Exporting Topology David Fifield (Jul 22)
- Re: Exporting Topology David Fifield (Jul 22)