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Network Exploration

This chapter covers the following recipes:

Discovering hosts with TCP SYN ping scans
Discovering hosts with TCP ACK ping scans
Discovering hosts with UDP ping scans
Discovering hosts with ICMP ping scans
Discovering hosts with SCTP INIT ping scans
Discovering hosts with IP protocol ping scans
Discovering hosts with ARP ping scans
Performing advanced ping scans
Discovering hosts with broadcast pings
Scanning IPv6 addresses
Gathering network information with broadcast NSE scripts
Scanning through proxies
Spoofing the origin IP of a scan

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