![]() Most of this interaction occurs on the Nmap mailing lists. Supported: While Nmap comes with no warranty, it is well supported by a vibrant community of developers and users.Well Documented: Significant effort has been put into comprehensive and up-to-date man pages, whitepapers, tutorials, and even a whole book! Find them in multiple languages here.Nmap is available for free download, and also comes with full source code that you may modify and redistribute under the terms of the license. Free: The primary goals of the Nmap Project is to help make the Internet a little more secure and to provide administrators/auditors/hackers with an advanced tool for exploring their networks.Binaries are available for those who do not wish to compile Nmap from source. Both traditional command line and graphical (GUI) versions are available to suit your preference. Easy: While Nmap offers a rich set of advanced features for power users, you can start out as simply as “nmap -v -A targethost”.Portable: Most operating systems are supported, including Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, IRIX, Mac OS X, HP-UX, NetBSD, Sun OS, Amiga, and more. ![]() Powerful: Nmap has been used to scan huge networks of literally hundreds of thousands of machines.This includes many port scanning mechanisms (both TCP & UDP), OS detection, version detection, ping sweeps, and more. ![]() Flexible: Supports dozens of advanced techniques for mapping out networks filled with IP filters, firewalls, routers, and other obstacles.It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. ![]() Nmap Security Scanner – is a useful utility for network exploration or security auditing. ![]()
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