Re: Fwd: GSOC projects script writer(discovery)

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 04:02:21PM +0530, Indula Nayanamith wrote:
> I am studying at  Department of Computer Science and
> engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am interested in network
> and system work. I used a network management tool called nedi[1] which is a
> collection of perl scripts and I work with the code to tailor it to the
> organization i worked during the training period. Nedi had a unique
> discovery technique using CDP and LLDP. I worked with network discovery
> protocols and we tested some commercial applications like solarwind[2]and
> also NMAP to improve nedi and learn mechanisms to use in discovery.From
> then, i am interested in network discovery techniques and protocols. I
> enjoyed learning about network discovery protocols and techniques. I saw
> your scripting position and i would love to work on network discovery
> scripts.Also I am good with c programming.
> I am confident that with little guidance and smart work i can complete this
> and contribute to nmap community. I went through initial idea and have some
> questions on this
> can you give me some ideas on network discovery techniques and protocols
> you are interested.

Thanks for your interest. You will want to start by reading the host
discovery section in the Nmap man page.

http://nmap.org/book/man-host-discovery.html

Then I recommend that you look at some of the scripts that do network
discovery.

http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/targets-ipv6-multicast-echo.html
http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/targets-ipv6-multicast-invalid-dst.html
http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/targets-ipv6-multicast-mld.html
http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/targets-ipv6-multicast-slaac.html
http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/broadcast-dhcp-discover.html
http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/broadcast-dhcp6-discover.html
http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/broadcast-dns-service-discovery.html

David Fifield
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