Identify Target and Gateway IP Addresses using nmap

On an actual penetration test you’d probably already know both of these addresses as a result of mapping the network. But for the sake of anyone testing this at home, fire up nmap and perform a ping-sweep of the subnet. In a typical /24 network, using the -T4 flag for a slightly faster scan. T

Nmap (Complete Reference)

Nmap is great security tool developed by “Fyodor”. Basically it was a *nix tool but now available on various platforms and with GUI as well. Let the IP address to be scanned is 192.168.0.1. Simply it can be done as: # nmap 192.168.0.1 Few default things have also been executed along with the above mentioned