[107859] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating a visual Map of a network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Alston)
Tue Sep 16 06:41:48 2008
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:41:41 +0200
From: Colin Alston <karnaugh@karnaugh.za.net>
To: castellan2004-nsm@yahoo.com
In-Reply-To: <451268.84305.qm@web30807.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Cc: NANOG@nanog.org
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castellan2004-nsm@yahoo.com wrote:
> I am being tasked to map a network. In the past I have used nmap to find the systems on the local LAN and remote LANs (same enterprise).
>
> This time I want to create a visual map of the LAN. With cheops, I reasonably good results but cannot be documented for managers with certainty. What are some good tools now that will create visual maps of the networks?
>
> What is the best way to map a network when ICMP echo has been turned off?
>
I've had success using Scapy (http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/) and
tying it into Graphviz. It can do TCP traces too and has all sorts of
built in visualisation options.
And look at the bottom here http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/demo.html
