Re: Nmap as a network mapper

[Adrian <abelmontemartin () gmail com>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:20 PM,  <mjanmart () student fundp ac be> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a student in computer science in the FUNDP in Belgium. I'm doing a
> project who monitors the network of a company and shows how much packet they
> exchange and how long they stay online. Its goal is to show that a lot of
> people keep their computer up when they're not at work and that it's not
> eco-friendly. Moreover, the company looses money because of that behaviour.
>
> You're probably wondering why I tell you all that. I have also to make a map
> of the network of the company to "show" to a "non-computer scientist" a more
> simple interface like "computer always up are in red, computer always down
> are in green". I have a virtual lab and I really don't know if/how I can use
> nmap to map it. I saw Zenmap had an interface that could do such things but
> it doesn't work when I try to map my local network.

Nmap is capable to show you if a computer or a number of computer (ie:
a network)  is alive or not
and if its up, try to determine open ports and SO and versions of
programs running in that host.

So it would be useful for you, but maybe you would need any program to
capture packets and get some kind of statistics or use a passive
fingerprintings program.


> Have you got any hints or links you could send me explaining how a network
> mapping is performed?
>
> I hope I did send this mail to the right address.
>
> regards,
>
> Max.
>
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