It is usually not necessary to use a software to plan a small home network that consists of a couple of PCs, a router and maybe other peripherals like a NAS or printer. But when it comes to medium sized or even larger networks, especially in a business environment, it pays off to plan before [...]

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Nmap is one of the most useful network discovery tools you will ever use. Nmap allows you to explore networks of any size to determine the following information: Port details Host details State Service Devices Addresses and much, much more Nmap is one of those applications you will need to open anytime you see issues [...]

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This morning I needed a visual representation of my local Lan in order to find out what machines were associated with what IP addresses. For this task I used a tool that has come in handy on a number of occasions. That tool? Lanmap. Lanmap is a command-line only tool available for Ubuntu that will [...]

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