good ip scanner

[retired1af]

Better yet..

man nmap

[*DEAD*]

no "nmap ip" will scan that ip for open ports. what i need is soemthing to ping each ip address of a range to find if they are responding or not

[retired1af]

One.. More.. Time..

man nmap

[*DEAD*]

ive read thing thru about 30 times, i use nmap all the time. the point is that nmap is a port scanner. a port scanner is one that sends an IP address different packages to test whether or not the recieving port is open. then we can also use it to determine what software is running on that port and a whole bunch of other stuff (ok ill stop there b4 i go into hacking). what i need is an IP scanner. an IP scanner will ping a list or range of different hosts to determine whether they are up or not. this allows a person to find other computers on the same network.

[retired1af]

TARGET SPECIFICATION
Everything that isn't an option (or option argument) in
nmap is treated as a target host specification. The sim*
plest case is listing single hostnames or IP addresses on
the command line. If you want to scan a subnet of IP
addresses, you can append /mask to the hostname or IP
address. mask must be between 0 (scan the whole Internet)
and 32 (scan the single host specified). Use /24 to scan
a class "C" address and /16 for a class "B".

Nmap also has a more powerful notation which lets you
specify an IP address using lists/ranges for each element.
Thus you can scan the whole class "B" network 192.168.*.*
by specifying "192.168.*.*" or "192.168.0-255.0-255" or
even "192.168.1-50,51-255.1,2,3,4,5-255". And of course
you can use the mask notation: "192.168.0.0/16". These
are all equivalent. If you use asterisks ("*"), remember
that most shells require you to escape them with back
slashes or protect them with quotes.

Another interesting thing to do is slice the Internet the
other way. Instead of scanning all the hosts in a class
"B", scan "*.*.5.6-7" to scan every IP address that ends
in .5.6 or .5.7 Pick your own numbers. For more informa*
tion on specifying hosts to scan, see the examples sec*
tion.

and.....

-sP Ping scanning: Sometimes you only want to know
which hosts on a network are up. Nmap can do this
by sending ICMP echo request packets to every IP
address on the networks you specify. Hosts that
respond are up. Unfortunately, some sites such as
microsoft.com block echo request packets. Thus
nmap can also send a TCP ack packet to (by default)
port 80. If we get an RST back, that machine is
up. A third technique involves sending a SYN
packet and waiting for a RST or a SYN/ACK. For
non-root users, a connect() method is used.

By default (for root users), nmap uses both the
ICMP and ACK techniques in parallel. You can
change the -P option described later.

Note that pinging is done by default anyway, and
only hosts that respond are scanned. Only use this
option if you wish to ping sweep without doing any
actual port scans.

All the above information was from man nmap. Read it again.

[lennartz]

That's right.
What do you think nmap does to determine if a host is up and available for portscanning......you guessed it...

So all you do is leave out the portscanning with an option.
You CAN scan ranges with Nmap, so here is your "ip scanner"

[*DEAD*]

wow. what version do u have. i just realized i had 1.7. i got the new one and now i found that in the man. thx

[ynicle]

U mean a ip range?

like this :

nmap 192.168.0.1-27

this example will scam ip addr from 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.27

[anomie]

As has been mentioned repeatedly, you want nmap. And has been mentioned repeatedly, now is as good a time as any to become acquainted with the man pages.

If it's good enough for trinity...

[loft306]

no i mean IP scanner.
one where you punch in 2 ips and it scans for ips inbetween the two. its mainly a hackers tool but id like one for my network. angry IP scanners a good one for windows.

where you used the term 'hackers' the real term to use there is crackers crackers break into systems hackers fix and run systems.....it is the media that got it wrong!