nwscan 0.3

nwscan

Scan networks for alive hosts, uses CIDR notation.

Simple example:

$ nwscan 192.168.1.1/24
Scanning 254 hosts...

192.168.1.1 is alive
192.168.1.10 is alive
192.168.1.12 is alive
192.168.1.23 is alive
192.168.1.104 is alive

Finished: 254 hosts scanned
Alive hosts: 5

Notes

• Works on Python 2 and Python 3

• Tested on Linux and Windows (Cygwin)

Install

Install using pip:

pip install nwscan

Usage

Usage: nwscan network [options]

scan network for alive hosts, uses CIDR notation

Options:
--version       show program's version number and exit
-h, --help      show this help message and exit
-r, --reverse   print not responding hosts rather than alive
-w WORKERS      number of workers threads to use (default: 8)
-t TIMEOUT      timeout of each ping request in seconds (default: 1)
-n COUNT        number of ping requests to send (default: 1)
-i INPUT_FILE   scan networks from input file (one network per line)
-o OUTPUT_FILE  save sorted ips output to file

Examples

Scan all 254 usable IPs of network ‘192.168.0.*’:

$ nwscan 192.168.0.0/24

Scan networks from ‘networks.txt’ file using 16 workers:

$ nwscan -i networks.txt -w 16

Scan not responding hosts and save ips to file ‘ips.txt’:

$ nwscan 192.168.0.0/24 -r -o ips.txt