Live host detection is a very important tool for any penetration tester and ethical piracy. In this tutorial we will use Nmap in Kali Linux to scan the network for live hosts. You can use the ifconfig command to determine the IP range that will search on live hosts. We will use a ping scan on a range of possible live hosts in our network. Nmap will ping each host in this interval to determine if the host is active or not. In this tutorial we will use nmap to scan and detect hosts on the network. Needless to say, there are many tools available for host detection, even for mobile devices. A very popular mobile application for this purpose is Fing Network Scanner. You can download this application in the Apple app store and on Google Playstore for Android.
Nmap scanning for live hosts
Start a ping scan for live hosts using this command:$ nmap -sP 192.168.0.0-100$ nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24Nmap will return a list of all detected hosts
Add -v to your command to increase the verbosity of the ping scan:
$ nmap -sP 192.168.0.0-100 -vThis will return all scanned hosts with their status.
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