For a few years now, I’ve been relying on a spreadsheet and configuring static IPs on end devices. With a few tablets and laptop, that’s no big deal. However, since really ramping up my home lab and adding a bunch of smart items the list has grown, and my documentation kind of sucks. I’m currently sorting through VLANs and setting up static releases in pfsense. This tool will help tremendously. You’re an angel.
You have created a great Open Source channel! Thank you for promoting Open Source software. I find your style interesting to watch snd you cover items well. Your response to comments adds to the information too.
I spent my career as an alarm tech... I've been in more attics and other insane places then you can imagine...😁 Love the videos and the shiny new tool. Thanks! I needed this for my linux machine...
I did some alarm work for a contractor at an air force base one, and had a tiny 18 year old woman have to follow me through attics and crawl spaces with her m-4 on her back right behind me. I thought it was hard getting through just me, but stopping to push a gun barrel back out of a cluster of pipe and wire...yeah...not for me.
Indeed, nMap can do much of what NetDiscover does, but I wasn't able to find an IP camera on a completely different subnet setting with NMap, and NetDiscover did find it right away. I've done videos on NMap, Angry IP Scanner, and several others in the past. All great tools, and all have their strengths for sure. I just want to give people tools to build up their tool-belt with.
Yeah, Houstonite here. I have had Eero about as long as you, but I have had zero issues with it. But, full disclosure, only 1 of the 5 Eeros that I have in the house are not connected via Gigabit Ethernet, so that carries the majority of the load. That part of the house was just impossible to get to through the attic. Desktops are also wired. Just laptops and phone use the WiFi. I started with the Eero 5 and now have a mix of 5, 6, and 6 Pro (as the router). Thanks for the heads up on this software. Just what I have been looking for!
You bet. Yeah I started with the pack that had a single wired node (the gateway), and 2 wireless nodes for mesh with no ports. So that's where I got really stuck eventually on Eero, and the lack of desktop control vs. the phone.
Most routers already shows that list with even more information like link speeds Lan and wlan. Only usability for the tool is when there are devices that are in another subnet like managed switches that didnt got the IP from the DHCP, or IP cameras that connected to a recorder etc.
Indeed, you can get this from routers in most cases, but where NetDiscover is super useful is if you have a device with an unknown address set statically that isn't on a known subnet. You connect directly to the device, and run NetDiscover in listen (sniff) only mode, and then power the device, and it will find it very quickly. You can then take steps to access, and adjust the IP as needed. I had to do this with an IP camera that came from the manufacturer with a preset IP that was on an odd subnet.
@@AwesomeOpenSource could it be that your network is more hodgepodge and that is why the functionality is not present? With my network I see every device on it regardless if the device has a IP assigned by my network. I had a camera go belly up and request dhcp yet ignored the response and went to default IP which is not in my network range. I seen the IP it said that it was on the switch it reside on.
The reason for what you see as weird interface names is to make them predictable. Eth0 and so on is based on what's detected first which can lead to some funny scenarios where I had some machines with multiple cards randomly switch up ip configurations and that's what you don't want to have.
While the predictable naming mostly works, there are caveats due to various enumeration issues. For example, I had one Supermicro X10 board with two on-board NICs and they would usually be ENO1, ENO2, etc. but the BIOS was missing a DMI entry for one of them that predictable naming uses for "on-board". A udev rule fixed this as Supermicro would not. Sometimes adding a PCIe card amd/or moving the NIC card around will change the enumeration and break working networking.
You may find that after you set up pfSense, under Status/DHSCP Leases, all this will have been done for you and all you'll have to do is click on the plus sign next to each entry to make it a static address.
Yep, did the same with OPNSense, but my HomeAssistant wnats my Wifi bulbs and switches to have a specific IP, so that's why I needed this stuff to know which IPs went with which MAC.
I use the assigned dhcp address in pFsense. I use it with my printers and ip phones at work. I can leave the printer in dhcp and it gets the IP address I want.
If the “weird” IP address was 169.254.x.x with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0, thats APIPA, a self-assigned IP range used as a fallback when a device can’t get a DHCP response.
That looks useful. Use fing on an android which is brilliant. nmap seems to miss things on ocasions, ping doesnt pick up some Amazon devices. Shall definitely give this a try.
Sweet tool! Got no result on the first one, but the second -P brought up all my IoT junk lol. Also It's pretty funny you explaining your ceiling space; I call that electricians yoga. Comes part of trade lol
Indeed. I often wish I could put that attic space to better use, but at 7 am today it was already 90 degrees F in there...so probably not a great idea.
@@AwesomeOpenSource that sounds familiar! I had to wire an office network in Redding California, in the summer. Tried to be in there as early as possible, as it quickly exceeded 130 degrees in the attic.
yeah, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The heat just blasts up as the day goes on. In fact, I want to add a couple more IP cams on my home, and would again need to venture into the attic to do it, but right now it just doesn't even get cool enough at night to get up there. Just miserable.
@@javabeanz8549 I find that hilarious being an electrician. In Queensland, Australia where it get's that hot in steel frame roof spaces you need to take off your shirt to hold onto them. Then you get the added advantage of fibreglass wool entering the pores of your skin making you itchy as haha!
I wasn't aware of anything like this. I've built my own DHCP IP manager that writes out the DHCP client list based on MAC addresses, but I've been struggling to figure the best way to get a list of MACs that are on the network that makes sense. With the "-P" functionality, I can scan my entire 192.16/16 network and I can put into the database when the last time I saw a MAC on my LAN. I can then decide to clean things up when machines disappear after a certain number of days or months either automagically or manually. Weekend project! The IP manager needs some tweaks to support /16 (Currently only manages /24), so I may do a rewrite or update and include THIS tool.
Indeed, it's a great tool, and I have a video on it as well as NMap too. I like to provide as many options as I can, and especially since they all do things in a slightly different way.
I am going to go out on a limb and guess that very few of your viewers will get that MAC machine reference. Talk about an effective ad campaign. I still use the term “going tap MAC” when heading to the ATM.
This is cool. Notwithstanding, please do not overlook the possibility of putting 192.168.0.1 in your browser, which should be your router, and checking out the IP addresses listed in the NAT table. I think. It's been a while.
Yeah, of course, use the IP subnet for your own router, but indeed, it's possible to do that on a lot of routers. In my case Eero shows this data, but only on mobile, and it can't be exported.
My first reaction when I saw "regardless of subnet", was - Hey, cool!... cross-vlan scanning!! But, I guess not. Since you are running pfSense - and are maybe running multiple VLANs, then netdiscover can only scan the VLAN that its running on. But, you might be able to install ("side load") netdiscover onto pfSense itself, then ssh into pfSense and run netdiscover there. That way you would have access to all your vlans from a single point. Just specify a -r value that includes all of the vlans (e.g. 192.168.0.0/16)
@@AwesomeOpenSource Can I ask if you have them sorted somehow? I have assigned IP addresses to mine via IPfire and entered them into a calc sheet. It would be nice to access them via something like Dashy, but I have around fifty and that would be a crazy amount of work. Some Shelly tend to fly off the WLAN for me because the reception situation is a bit tricky at times. So it would be nice if they could be pinged maybe once an hour to see if they're all still alive. And I also have to get rid of one thing: Thanks to your videos I have again Bock on my Smarthome, you always present tools that do exactly what I want. Dashy is such an example. However, no criticism, I'm not a Docker fan, because I run everything on Raspis and TV boxes. (OMV = underclocked C2D and IPfire = D510) Underneath it all, this is more energy efficient and failsafe than running everything on a NUC. I mostly fast forward your videos when you talk about installing on a Docker image.
I think that I see why your wireless is slow. That's a lot of devices to be chattering on a mesh system. Also, best practice is to separate your IoT devices to their own network.
@@AwesomeOpenSource that's another thing we had at the wireless ISP, it isolated a lot of the noise. But it can be tricky if you have a mix of networking equipment. Cisco, Netgear and Ubiquity all have their own way to configure the VLANs. I suggest making really good notes before you start, and working it all out on a whiteboard, as a network map.
You are correct, I did not mention it in this video. And that's on me. But I 100% believe you should support the developers of Open Source in whatever method they have available. That's the only way to encourage further development.
Try checking Diagnostics >> ARPTable. That's where you'll get the best list of "recently"connected devices. This will be a list that updates over time, but it may keep devices that aren't connected anymore, for just a bit.
I wrote a php script to run netdiscover, then import all the output in to a MySQL database. I was working for a wireless ISP, with over 3,000 customer locations, so it had to be scripted and ran on a schedule.
When you say 166 counts, do you mean 166 devices on the network? Where do you live, house or apartment? What type of internet do you have? You could just have a tone of devices on your network, or you could have a cable system where all units are on a shared connection that NetDiscover can see through. Lots of possibilities.
Yeah I see it only supports the full octet level of ranges ( /8, /16, or /24...) You could use /16, and while it would scan a lot more, it should catch any on the /22 level.
I am curious about the ability to output the found devices & hostnames to a file, having that file update a pi-hole host file so that when you look at the pi-hole - tools - network you have the hostnames of devices show instead of blank spaces as it currently does.
If you allow pi-hole to be your dhcp server, it would show you all of that information, but that's not how I run my Pi-hole unfortunately. You can allow it to be the DHCP server thoug.
@@AwesomeOpenSource I have another system handling dhcp. I want to find a way to update the /etc/hosts on the pi-hole if that is even where it needs to be updated. Information on the internet has been sparse and not helpful. Thanks for the response.
Since you are using your pfsense to terminate the connection from your isp, does this means you run your isp's modem/router in bridge mode? Else how did you implement that? Also you mentioned that after pfsense you have those 4 routers? Are you sure they are routers and not simply Access points? What is the purpose to have 4 different routers? To my knowledge you cant play along a network with 4 different routers except you sum the line to one (old good zero cell) You confused back there
My terminology is sometimes misleading. Definitely, the 4 devices after my OPNSense box now, are just acting as Access Points running DD-WRT. They are not acting as Routers. I say "routers" generically as the device, which is bad. As for the ISP modem, I do use their modem, but it does not have a router built in, so my OPNSense box gets a public IP from them directly, then it is my DHCP router / firewall appliance to my local network.
@@AwesomeOpenSource If your ISP provides you with a modem that just terminates their line, where is your phone terminated to? In my country, our main problem is the ISP providers dont give configuration for their voip telephony and if you make their modem/router as bridge you loose telephone. I haven t found a way yet to bypass that except the case where they give you traditional phone which needs to be split by the usual splitters. Internet regulations though dictate ISPS to provide voip and not traditional copper wire telephone.
I have phone, and I also can't modify the modem portion, but there is no "router" function in it that I know of. I also don't use the phone part. We just have mobiles.
I think that they use the same techniques. Also, after you get these initial scans, you can set up arpwatch to tell you about anything new on the network. Though the first few days might just collect the network slowly, unless you run netdiscover for a while after you get arpwatch up and listening.
Your attic is nothing special. It sounds just like mine in N Central Indiana. They were not intended to be finished, ever. And there is not enough room in mine to stand up in the middle. It is crawl, all the way. And too hot to work in during the summer. BUT, I have done some eth wiring up there, and am about to do more, in order to get solid connections to the room I decided to use as my office. I also have some finish up work to do related to adding on to the house. I feel your pain.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Really like your channel, BTW. Part of my work ahead, is to bring wired eth to two rooms in the older part, so I can have my 'office' wired with solid communications, and printer in another room. It is pretty hard to find the exact spot to drill amongst all of the insulation, ducting, etc. I will put my IT center in that room, such as it is. And in about a year, get fiber available. I do have a bit of the existing 120v I want to revise also. Amenities. I hate doing it, but once done, never again. I did add on to this 60s house, and put plenty of eth plus coax (tv) in all parts of it. Tech may make it obsolete someday, but so will I be. LOL. This is some finishing work on the total remodel of the original house.
Open Source means Free as in Freedom, so depending on the way you use the word Free, they could be almost synonymous. Free to change it, modify it, re-distribute it, and share it. That's Open Source in the broadest terms. Free, as in Free Beer, software isn't specifically open source, so anything could be going on under the covers, and you just have to hope the author has no mal intent.
As for Home Automation, I have a series on Home Assistant from a year or so back. Check it out here. Let me knwo if you want more. ruclips.net/video/E2YXIArfJdE/видео.html
A lot of these videos on the networking stuff are based on my installs, but if you're asking if I video recorded my adventures in the attic... no, it would just be one long *bleep* for sure.
Can you tell us what all those Expressif devices are and maybe a links to purchase them? Expressif makes ESP8266 and ESP32 WiFi microcontrollers that hobbyists (Arduino) like to program so I think it would be cool to buy a few light bulbs, or whatever they are, and try to reprogram them.
Shelly brand smart home wifi gear is what I use. I really love their stuff. It has so many ways to do really great things with and it's all local if you want it to be. If you're in Europe / Asia, use shop.shelly.cloud and if in the US use shopusa.shelly.cloud.
Are you talking more endpoin networking (like Unifi), or endpoint server / machine management? On Networking, there is OpenWisp, designed more specifically for OpenWRT management on a large scale. I want to cover it eventually, but still just learning about it. For Server / Machine management, I have videos on MeshCentral ruclips.net/video/pGBIjBGqlfI/видео.html and RPort ruclips.net/video/Xc_5qE7ZyYA/видео.html
For a few years now, I’ve been relying on a spreadsheet and configuring static IPs on end devices. With a few tablets and laptop, that’s no big deal. However, since really ramping up my home lab and adding a bunch of smart items the list has grown, and my documentation kind of sucks.
I’m currently sorting through VLANs and setting up static releases in pfsense.
This tool will help tremendously. You’re an angel.
Glad I could help.
Did not realize that about the Fixed Width feature in Libre Calc. That is pretty awesome.
Yep, it's a really amazing bit of software all on it's own, and it is FOSS as well!
You have created a great Open Source channel! Thank you for promoting Open Source software. I find your style interesting to watch snd you cover items well. Your response to comments adds to the information too.
Glad you like it!
I spent my career as an alarm tech... I've been in more attics and other insane places then you can imagine...😁 Love the videos and the shiny new tool. Thanks! I needed this for my linux machine...
I did some alarm work for a contractor at an air force base one, and had a tiny 18 year old woman have to follow me through attics and crawl spaces with her m-4 on her back right behind me. I thought it was hard getting through just me, but stopping to push a gun barrel back out of a cluster of pipe and wire...yeah...not for me.
Netdiscover seems rather convenient but you could probably get similar results with NMAP. Great tool and video!
Indeed, nMap can do much of what NetDiscover does, but I wasn't able to find an IP camera on a completely different subnet setting with NMap, and NetDiscover did find it right away. I've done videos on NMap, Angry IP Scanner, and several others in the past. All great tools, and all have their strengths for sure. I just want to give people tools to build up their tool-belt with.
Yeah, Houstonite here. I have had Eero about as long as you, but I have had zero issues with it. But, full disclosure, only 1 of the 5 Eeros that I have in the house are not connected via Gigabit Ethernet, so that carries the majority of the load. That part of the house was just impossible to get to through the attic. Desktops are also wired. Just laptops and phone use the WiFi. I started with the Eero 5 and now have a mix of 5, 6, and 6 Pro (as the router). Thanks for the heads up on this software. Just what I have been looking for!
You bet. Yeah I started with the pack that had a single wired node (the gateway), and 2 wireless nodes for mesh with no ports. So that's where I got really stuck eventually on Eero, and the lack of desktop control vs. the phone.
@@AwesomeOpenSource while not a desktop app, you might be able to use the Android Developer Kit to run the app on your computer.
What? This is a crazy open source app. Keep up the great work man!
Thanks! Will do!
Most routers already shows that list with even more information like link speeds Lan and wlan. Only usability for the tool is when there are devices that are in another subnet like managed switches that didnt got the IP from the DHCP, or IP cameras that connected to a recorder etc.
Indeed, you can get this from routers in most cases, but where NetDiscover is super useful is if you have a device with an unknown address set statically that isn't on a known subnet. You connect directly to the device, and run NetDiscover in listen (sniff) only mode, and then power the device, and it will find it very quickly. You can then take steps to access, and adjust the IP as needed. I had to do this with an IP camera that came from the manufacturer with a preset IP that was on an odd subnet.
@@AwesomeOpenSource could it be that your network is more hodgepodge and that is why the functionality is not present?
With my network I see every device on it regardless if the device has a IP assigned by my network.
I had a camera go belly up and request dhcp yet ignored the response and went to default IP which is not in my network range. I seen the IP it said that it was on the switch it reside on.
You must have a simple network and no routing.
Love the content! Thx for finding cool things and sharing.
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoy it.
Hi there Brian. Once again a very informative video
Glad you enjoyed it
The reason for what you see as weird interface names is to make them predictable. Eth0 and so on is based on what's detected first which can lead to some funny scenarios where I had some machines with multiple cards randomly switch up ip configurations and that's what you don't want to have.
Great info! And it makes total sense.
While the predictable naming mostly works, there are caveats due to various enumeration issues. For example, I had one Supermicro X10 board with two on-board NICs and they would usually be ENO1, ENO2, etc. but the BIOS was missing a DMI entry for one of them that predictable naming uses for "on-board". A udev rule fixed this as Supermicro would not. Sometimes adding a PCIe card amd/or moving the NIC card around will change the enumeration and break working networking.
Why can't they name them ethX though, or is eno a fixed prefix?
@@affieuk eno and all those are driver names depending on the brand. That way you know for sure what card this is
@@affieuk I believe you can override the names if you want to, but you would be editing configuration files.
You may find that after you set up pfSense, under Status/DHSCP Leases, all this will have been done for you and all you'll have to do is click on the plus sign next to each entry to make it a static address.
Yep, did the same with OPNSense, but my HomeAssistant wnats my Wifi bulbs and switches to have a specific IP, so that's why I needed this stuff to know which IPs went with which MAC.
I use the assigned dhcp address in pFsense. I use it with my printers and ip phones at work. I can leave the printer in dhcp and it gets the IP address I want.
Nice.
If the “weird” IP address was 169.254.x.x with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0, thats APIPA, a self-assigned IP range used as a fallback when a device can’t get a DHCP response.
Yep, this is exactly what it is.
I have seen Windows and Mac machine keep that even with DHCP working.
@@javabeanz8549 - Me too. It’s a pain. Pretty rare though, unless your DHCP server is down a lot.
That looks useful. Use fing on an android which is brilliant. nmap seems to miss things on ocasions, ping doesnt pick up some Amazon devices. Shall definitely give this a try.
Hope it works well for you.
Sweet tool! Got no result on the first one, but the second -P brought up all my IoT junk lol. Also It's pretty funny you explaining your ceiling space; I call that electricians yoga. Comes part of trade lol
Indeed. I often wish I could put that attic space to better use, but at 7 am today it was already 90 degrees F in there...so probably not a great idea.
@@AwesomeOpenSource that sounds familiar! I had to wire an office network in Redding California, in the summer. Tried to be in there as early as possible, as it quickly exceeded 130 degrees in the attic.
yeah, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The heat just blasts up as the day goes on. In fact, I want to add a couple more IP cams on my home, and would again need to venture into the attic to do it, but right now it just doesn't even get cool enough at night to get up there. Just miserable.
@@AwesomeOpenSource we did use a fan to push some cooler air in while it was cool outside, or push some of the AC air up. Helped for a little while.
@@javabeanz8549 I find that hilarious being an electrician. In Queensland, Australia where it get's that hot in steel frame roof spaces you need to take off your shirt to hold onto them. Then you get the added advantage of fibreglass wool entering the pores of your skin making you itchy as haha!
I wasn't aware of anything like this. I've built my own DHCP IP manager that writes out the DHCP client list based on MAC addresses, but I've been struggling to figure the best way to get a list of MACs that are on the network that makes sense. With the "-P" functionality, I can scan my entire 192.16/16 network and I can put into the database when the last time I saw a MAC on my LAN. I can then decide to clean things up when machines disappear after a certain number of days or months either automagically or manually. Weekend project!
The IP manager needs some tweaks to support /16 (Currently only manages /24), so I may do a rewrite or update and include THIS tool.
Sounds like an awesome project!
Wao, this tool is amazing. Thanks for sharing it.
My pleasure.
I'm a fan of Angry IP Scanner. Very similar except that it has a GUI.
Indeed, it's a great tool, and I have a video on it as well as NMap too. I like to provide as many options as I can, and especially since they all do things in a slightly different way.
I am going to go out on a limb and guess that very few of your viewers will get that MAC machine reference. Talk about an effective ad campaign. I still use the term “going tap MAC” when heading to the ATM.
As long as a few get it, it counts.
This is cool. Notwithstanding, please do not overlook the possibility of putting 192.168.0.1 in your browser, which should be your router, and checking out the IP addresses listed in the NAT table. I think. It's been a while.
Yeah, of course, use the IP subnet for your own router, but indeed, it's possible to do that on a lot of routers. In my case Eero shows this data, but only on mobile, and it can't be exported.
My first reaction when I saw "regardless of subnet", was - Hey, cool!... cross-vlan scanning!! But, I guess not. Since you are running pfSense - and are maybe running multiple VLANs, then netdiscover can only scan the VLAN that its running on.
But, you might be able to install ("side load") netdiscover onto pfSense itself, then ssh into pfSense and run netdiscover there. That way you would have access to all your vlans from a single point. Just specify a -r value that includes all of the vlans (e.g. 192.168.0.0/16)
Yeah VLANs still count, but if the VLAN it's run on has access to other VLANs in the firewall it should be able to scan still.
10:55 Ahh! A lot of Shellys! 🙂
Thank you, so glad!
@@AwesomeOpenSource Can I ask if you have them sorted somehow? I have assigned IP addresses to mine via IPfire and entered them into a calc sheet.
It would be nice to access them via something like Dashy, but I have around fifty and that would be a crazy amount of work.
Some Shelly tend to fly off the WLAN for me because the reception situation is a bit tricky at times. So it would be nice if they could be pinged maybe once an hour to see if they're all still alive.
And I also have to get rid of one thing: Thanks to your videos I have again Bock on my Smarthome, you always present tools that do exactly what I want. Dashy is such an example.
However, no criticism, I'm not a Docker fan, because I run everything on Raspis and TV boxes. (OMV = underclocked C2D and IPfire = D510) Underneath it all, this is more energy efficient and failsafe than running everything on a NUC. I mostly fast forward your videos when you talk about installing on a Docker image.
Nice video. Thanks!
You bet, and thanks for watching!
This was pretty cool video! Can you do one vulnerability scan type example video?
There are some other tools that I'm investigating for later videos on vulnerability scanning, so we'll see what I can put together.
I think that I see why your wireless is slow. That's a lot of devices to be chattering on a mesh system. Also, best practice is to separate your IoT devices to their own network.
Yep, tackling VLANs next...just need to find the time to do it.
@@AwesomeOpenSource that's another thing we had at the wireless ISP, it isolated a lot of the noise. But it can be tricky if you have a mix of networking equipment. Cisco, Netgear and Ubiquity all have their own way to configure the VLANs. I suggest making really good notes before you start, and working it all out on a whiteboard, as a network map.
@@javabeanz8549 I’m actually looking at doing a video on NetBox soon, and it’s basically exactly what that would be.
i put my foot through the ceiling one time. my wife got a good laugh from it.
It happens to us all...hahahaha
For you claiming to be a Hard-Core FOSS Advocate, I neither saw nor heard any mention of ‘donations’ to the software author/s.
You are correct, I did not mention it in this video. And that's on me. But I 100% believe you should support the developers of Open Source in whatever method they have available. That's the only way to encourage further development.
Look into using ADB to export the data from apps like that.
Will do, and thanks for the tip.
What is the PfSense tool for keeping track of devices on your network? There must be one.
Try checking Diagnostics >> ARPTable. That's where you'll get the best list of "recently"connected devices. This will be a list that updates over time, but it may keep devices that aren't connected anymore, for just a bit.
I wrote a php script to run netdiscover, then import all the output in to a MySQL database. I was working for a wireless ISP, with over 3,000 customer locations, so it had to be scripted and ran on a schedule.
That is awesome. Did you open source your script? Would love to see it and try it out.
@@AwesomeOpenSource I did not. But it wasn't that hard to figure out, and the program readable output made it easier to grab the pieces.
I wonder how this will compare to nMap's discovery.
Just depends on your needs, but I was very pleased with what it found.
running on kali in VMware.... one of my VM machines shows 166 counts???
can omeone help clarify what that means..
When you say 166 counts, do you mean 166 devices on the network? Where do you live, house or apartment? What type of internet do you have? You could just have a tone of devices on your network, or you could have a cable system where all units are on a shared connection that NetDiscover can see through. Lots of possibilities.
Thanks, 👍🏼🇧🇷
You are welcome!
It would be a great tool if it supported CIDR, I have a /22 network and want to scan for devices. Sadly, this tool doesn't seem to be able to do that.
Yeah I see it only supports the full octet level of ranges ( /8, /16, or /24...) You could use /16, and while it would scan a lot more, it should catch any on the /22 level.
Really nice tool
It is pretty awesome!
Nice tool, tnx.
My pleasure!
I am curious about the ability to output the found devices & hostnames to a file, having that file update a pi-hole host file so that when you look at the pi-hole - tools - network you have the hostnames of devices show instead of blank spaces as it currently does.
If you allow pi-hole to be your dhcp server, it would show you all of that information, but that's not how I run my Pi-hole unfortunately. You can allow it to be the DHCP server thoug.
@@AwesomeOpenSource I have another system handling dhcp. I want to find a way to update the /etc/hosts on the pi-hole if that is even where it needs to be updated. Information on the internet has been sparse and not helpful.
Thanks for the response.
When I tried this app it found 7 hosts, Angry IP Scanner found 11, nmap also found 11
May depend on how long you run, how active the hosts are when you scan, and which flags you use for the scan.
Since you are using your pfsense to terminate the connection from your isp, does this means you run your isp's modem/router in bridge mode? Else how did you implement that?
Also you mentioned that after pfsense you have those 4 routers? Are you sure they are routers and not simply Access points? What is the purpose to have 4 different routers? To my knowledge you cant play along a network with 4 different routers except you sum the line to one (old good zero cell) You confused back there
My terminology is sometimes misleading. Definitely, the 4 devices after my OPNSense box now, are just acting as Access Points running DD-WRT. They are not acting as Routers. I say "routers" generically as the device, which is bad. As for the ISP modem, I do use their modem, but it does not have a router built in, so my OPNSense box gets a public IP from them directly, then it is my DHCP router / firewall appliance to my local network.
@@AwesomeOpenSource If your ISP provides you with a modem that just terminates their line, where is your phone terminated to? In my country, our main problem is the ISP providers dont give configuration for their voip telephony and if you make their modem/router as bridge you loose telephone. I haven t found a way yet to bypass that except the case where they give you traditional phone which needs to be split by the usual splitters. Internet regulations though dictate ISPS to provide voip and not traditional copper wire telephone.
I have phone, and I also can't modify the modem portion, but there is no "router" function in it that I know of. I also don't use the phone part. We just have mobiles.
My kids did pretty well building their computers in the '90's, but I have seen much better cable routing.
Indeed, cable routing is a major pain, but it's better if you can do it neatly.
Netdiscover, I wonder if fing uses that program.
I was wondering the same actually, but still don't know.
I think that they use the same techniques. Also, after you get these initial scans, you can set up arpwatch to tell you about anything new on the network. Though the first few days might just collect the network slowly, unless you run netdiscover for a while after you get arpwatch up and listening.
which linux distro?
I believe I was on Pop_OS 21.10 when I made this video.
Your attic is nothing special. It sounds just like mine in N Central Indiana. They were not intended to be finished, ever. And there is not enough room in mine to stand up in the middle. It is crawl, all the way. And too hot to work in during the summer.
BUT, I have done some eth wiring up there, and am about to do more, in order to get solid connections to the room I decided to use as my office.
I also have some finish up work to do related to adding on to the house.
I feel your pain.
Indeed, it is just a work in progress that I didn't want to deal with...just finally had to dig in and do it.
@@AwesomeOpenSource
Really like your channel, BTW.
Part of my work ahead, is to bring wired eth to two rooms in the older part, so I can have my 'office' wired with solid communications, and printer in another room. It is pretty hard to find the exact spot to drill amongst all of the insulation, ducting, etc.
I will put my IT center in that room, such as it is. And in about a year, get fiber available.
I do have a bit of the existing 120v I want to revise also. Amenities.
I hate doing it, but once done, never again.
I did add on to this 60s house, and put plenty of eth plus coax (tv) in all parts of it. Tech may make it obsolete someday, but so will I be. LOL.
This is some finishing work on the total remodel of the original house.
What's the difference between Open source & Free software ???
BTW, will U make any home automation videos with FOSS ??
Open Source means Free as in Freedom, so depending on the way you use the word Free, they could be almost synonymous. Free to change it, modify it, re-distribute it, and share it. That's Open Source in the broadest terms. Free, as in Free Beer, software isn't specifically open source, so anything could be going on under the covers, and you just have to hope the author has no mal intent.
As for Home Automation, I have a series on Home Assistant from a year or so back. Check it out here. Let me knwo if you want more. ruclips.net/video/E2YXIArfJdE/видео.html
@@AwesomeOpenSource How's the experience with OpenHAB ??
(BTW, they have a RUclips Channel)
Did you make it a video project doing the install in your house ?
A lot of these videos on the networking stuff are based on my installs, but if you're asking if I video recorded my adventures in the attic... no, it would just be one long *bleep* for sure.
@@AwesomeOpenSource and what wasn't bleeped would likely be complaints about how hot and the contortionist positions.
Can you tell us what all those Expressif devices are and maybe a links to purchase them? Expressif makes ESP8266 and ESP32 WiFi microcontrollers that hobbyists (Arduino) like to program so I think it would be cool to buy a few light bulbs, or whatever they are, and try to reprogram them.
Shelly brand smart home wifi gear is what I use. I really love their stuff. It has so many ways to do really great things with and it's all local if you want it to be.
If you're in Europe / Asia, use shop.shelly.cloud and if in the US use shopusa.shelly.cloud.
Anything app for endpoint management
Sry any app*
Are you talking more endpoin networking (like Unifi), or endpoint server / machine management? On Networking, there is OpenWisp, designed more specifically for OpenWRT management on a large scale. I want to cover it eventually, but still just learning about it.
For Server / Machine management, I have videos on MeshCentral ruclips.net/video/pGBIjBGqlfI/видео.html and RPort ruclips.net/video/Xc_5qE7ZyYA/видео.html
I want as similar to manage engine desktop central
@@jrcybernet9845 check out both MeshCentral and RPort.
404 on the show notes link!
Uh oh. Had it scheduled to post. Let me see what happened. Thanks for letting me know.
Should be fixed.
hey at least a seven year old could have build a pc in the nineties .
a mac in the '90 would have been a fancy toaster non repairable 👍
Too true!
Cheers!
cheers to you.