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Re: Advice on Fastest NMAP Scan
From: "Gabriel Orozco" <gabriel_orozco () mx sumida com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:53:02 -0500
Well I would instead use one machine for each segment to scan it's own segment, and later merge all the data... at least, divide your network on chunks, so you can get final results sooner. Regards Gabriel Orozco SAM/IT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mogren, Jack L." <mogren () mayo edu> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:58 AM Subject: Advice on Fastest NMAP Scan
Hi, I want to use NMAP to perform a network inventory on our network. We
have over 75,000 networked devices. The address ranges include one class B, several class Cs, and the entire private address space. That's a lot of addresses to scan and I expect it to take a long time. I'm looking for advice on what options one might use to create the fastest NMAP scan. I'm only interested in finding our each devices OS and open services. Here's what I've come up with so far.
nmap -O -T4 -PE -F --osscan_limit -oX /home/security/test.xml -iL
/home/security/ip_addresses.txt
Any comments or suggestions? Also, has anyone had luck importing a NMAP-generated XML file into MS
Access? When I do so, it creates the tables, but the fields are blank. No data.
Thanks, Jack Mogren Mayo Clinic Foundation Information Security Office
Current thread:
- Advice on Fastest NMAP Scan Mogren, Jack L. (Oct 26)
- Re: Advice on Fastest NMAP Scan robert (Oct 26)
- Re: Advice on Fastest NMAP Scan Fyodor (Oct 26)
- Re: Advice on Fastest NMAP Scan GuidoZ (Oct 28)
- Re: Advice on Fastest NMAP Scan Ghaith Nasrawi (Oct 29)
- Re: Advice on Fastest NMAP Scan Gabriel Orozco (Oct 27)
- RE: Advice on Fastest NMAP Scan Andy Cuff (Oct 27)