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Use Angry IP Scanner to find hosts by open ports

Like a lightweight wireshark plus arpscan. I use arpscan a lot, and separately wireshark when I need to see ports, OS versions and other gravy. I'll give this critter a try and see how well it fits.

EDIT: it sure is fast! Looking good so far, except it seems to have missed some open ports and a host name or two. It apparently doesn't compare 'alive' IPs with the hosts file, all mine here are static and listed in everyone's /etc/hosts

I'll keep poking at it, but this is definitely useful as it is so far. Maybe I need to slow the time out on the port scan a bit...

I have been using this for years and never got around to blogging about this. Nice article

nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24

I'll give angy ip scanner a try though. I sounds like it has a good many features.

I've been using it for years. Biggest problem: My Anti-virus keeps wanting to delete it as a "Potentially Unwanted Program." Put in an exception for specific workstations, and now it works like a charm.

I've never truly found a scanner that finds everything all the time. Like other posters mentioned, AngryIP crops up as a virus. I personally use NMAP in Linux, NetScan in Windows and Overlook Fing on mobile devices.

Scany on the iPhone.

Besides nmap, don't forget about SuperScan from Foundstone.

nMap has a very nice Windows GUI for those who are allergic to the command line.

I've actually used cli nmap to run the scan saving to an xml then opened the xml in Zenmap for it's network diagram function.

Zenmap probably comes closest of all nmap GUI overlays for giving some form of access to all of nmap's functions.

Normally, I'll use nmap since I'm rarely without a machine that has it handy:
nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24
nmap -sT -p443,902 192.168.0.0/24

If I'm working on one of my own Windows boxes then it's usually Cain & Abel. Cain has a great arp scanner. I've yet to see it not dump a network device within the IP range though it may not be able to resolv a hostname (you'll get IP, MAC and manufacturer at minimum).

Netdiscover is also worth a look if your only interested in ARP/IP relationships.

Angry IP scanner works over a VPN whereas NMap will not. When I'm scanning for a remote host, I turn to Angry IP. When I'm local, I use NMap--often with the zenmap gui. I highly recommend both

Look at Lan, which i like alot better, is not available anymore.

None of the available Mac versions run on Mac Pro Intel with Leopard 10.5.8.

Not one that I use every day, but the little guy saves boocoo headaches when you need it. Wanna try something interesting? Run it on your home network. You may find some unexpected connections.

Yep, that is a big plus for Angy IP.

You have other prograsm like Netscan and Nmap.. very use full when is time to fiind host in a network and ypu dont know the ip address o if you need the MAC address...

I guess I haven't downloaded a new version in a while.

Good to see it's still actively developed. It is a nice, focused tool.

If you're still wondering if you should download it, I provide some additional screenshots here:

http://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/angry-ip-scanner/