Netdiscover is a great tool to scan your local network for locally attached devices. It is installed by default in Kali Linux. However, if you want to use it on a raspberry pi, you need to install it. You can do this as follows:
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# apt install netdiscover |
In virtualbox I have this setup of network in Kali Linux:
The very use of the tool requires specifying the subnetwork in which we are located. We can check it like this:
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# ifconfig |
In this case, we can scan network 192.168.1.0/24, so in netdiscover we can use:
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# netdiscover -r 192.168.1.0/24 |
The screen will show the network scanner:
Netdiscover also gives you the option to direct the result to a file, in this case it refreshes the scan every 2 seconds:
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# netdiscover -r 192.168.1.0/24 -s 2 -P >> /tmp/file |
Now we can also use nslookup to get hostname:
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$ cat /tmp/file | grep '192\.' | grep -v Screen | cut -c1-14 | sort -u | nslookup | grep name | cut -f 2 | cut -c8- |
Also we can use nmap:
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# nmap `cat /tmp/file | grep '192\.' | grep -v Screen | cut -c2-34 | sort -u | awk '{ print $1 }' | tr '\n' ' '` |
You can use more parameters in nmap for more information, however this will significantly increase the scan time. Still, sometimes it’s worth the wait.