Host Discovery

IP

Local IP

ip addr show dev tun0

ipv6

ip -6 addr show dev tun0

Find local hosts:

ip neigh

IPv6 hosts:

ip -6 neigh

How do I change the state of the device to UP or DOWN?

The syntax is as follows: ip link set dev {DEVICE} {up|down}

Nmap

Useful parameters:

Parameter

Info

-sS

Syn Scan

-v

Verbose

-A

OS, Scripts and service scan

-p-

Full port Scan

-sU

UDP Scan

--script=smb-vuln-scan

Run smb script

--script-args=unsafe=1

run the script with arguments

-iL

Scan from a target file

--exclude

Exclude listed hosts

--excludefile

Exclude file list

-sL

No scan list targets only

-sn

Disable port scanning, host discovery only

-sV

Attempts to determine the service version

-T0 to -T5

Scan speed, 0 the slowest and best at evasion, 5 insane speed scan

--max-retries

Maximum member of port scan retransmissions

netdiscover

Discovers IP, MAC Address and MAC vendor on the subnet from ARP, helpful for confirming you're on the right VLAN at client site

netdiscover -r 192.168.1.0/24

Results:

ARP

OneLiners - Ping sweep

Windows

for /L %i in (1,1,255) do @ping -n 1 -w 200 172.21.10.%i > nul && echo 192.168.1.%i is up.

Linux

for i in {1..254} ;do (ping -c 1 172.21.10.$i | grep "bytes from" &) ;done

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