Script `targets-sniffer`

Script types: prerule
Categories: broadcast, discovery, safe
Download: https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/scripts/targets-sniffer.nse

Script Summary

Sniffs the local network for a configurable amount of time (10 seconds by default) and prints discovered addresses. If the newtargets script argument is set, discovered addresses are added to the scan queue.

Requires root privileges. Either the targets-sniffer.iface script argument or -e Nmap option to define which interface to use.

Script Arguments

targets-sniffer.iface: The interface to use for sniffing.
targets-sniffer.timeout: The amount of time to listen for packets. Default 10s.
newtargets: If true, add discovered targets to the scan queue.
max-newtargets: See the documentation for the target library.

Example Usage

nmap -sL --script=targets-sniffer --script-args=newtargets,targets-sniffer.timeout=5s,targets-sniffer.iface=eth0

Script Output

Pre-scan script results:
| targets-sniffer:
| 192.168.0.1
| 192.168.0.3
| 192.168.0.35
|_192.168.0.100

Requires

Author:

Nick Nikolaou