Linux network scan command

As network engineers or penetration testers, we need to find the live hosts on the networks.

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Linux ip address command

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In today’s guide, we are going to see how to find live hosts on the network. We are going to use the nmap tool to find the live hosts on the network.

Nmap (network mapper) is an open-source command-line tool for network exploration and security auditing.

Nmap is used to scan the networks using the raw IP packets.

Installation

Now let’s see how to install nmap on the different Linux distributions:

For Ubuntu/Debian/Kali Linux systems:

sudo apt-get install nmap

For Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S nmap

For CentOS:

sudo yum install nmap

For Fedora:

sudo dnf install nmap

Syntax

Now we have installed the nmap on the system.

The syntax for nmap use is:

nmap <scan type...> options <target>

Here, scan type are the option provided by the nmap. And the target is the IP address or hostname of the network.

Key Options

The following are common options used with Nmap:

Option	Description
-sn linux show all ip addresses linux show network addresses