Netdiscover

Netdiscover is an ultimate scanning tools used to get the internal IP address and MAC address of live hosts in the network. Netdiscover is preinstalled tool in Kali Linux, if you are using Kali Linux then you dont need to install netdiscover. No doubt nmap is best tool for scanning network but Netdiscover is also good tool for finding Internal IP address and MAC address. So this tool is continuously exit on Kali Linux repository, before it was in backtrack repository as well.

Start Netdiscover in Kali Linux

Netdiscover is a very attractive tool for discovering hosts on wired or wireless network. It can be used in both active and passive mode.

Inactive Mode it send requests to hosts for getting information but in otherhand it is working in silent mode called passive mode or listening mode. To start and check for available options in netdiscover run following command.

#netdiscover –help

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