arp-scan

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Tool and Usage

Project details

Programming language
C
Author
Roy Hills
Latest release
1.10.0
Latest release date

Project health

52
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Introduction

The arp-scan utility can be used to detect hosts on the network. As it uses ARP, it only applies to IPv4, as IPv6 uses the neighbour discovery protocol (NDP).

Usage and audience

arp-scan is commonly used for network analysis or penetration testing. Target users for this tool are pentesters and security professionals.

Author and Maintainers

Arp-scan is under development by Roy Hills.

Installation

Supported operating systems

Arp-scan is known to work on Linux.

arp-scan alternatives

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arping

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ArpON

ArpON is a host-based tool to improve the security of the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP).

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addrwatch

Addrwatch is a tool similar to arpwatch to monitor IPv4/IPv6 and ethernet address pairing.

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Categories

This tool is categorized as a ARP scan tool.

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