Icmpenum is a handy tool that sends ICMP traffic to find potential targets on a network. It helps with something called host enumeration, which is just a fancy way of saying figuring out the IP addresses of devices connected to the network. You can do this in both layer 2 and layer 3, and that's where Icmpenum comes in. It supports different types of ICMP packets like Echo, Timestamp, Information, and Netmask. Plus, it can spoof addresses and listen for replies!
If you want to get started with Icmpenum, here’s how:
gcc `libnet-config --defines` -o icmpenum icmpenum.c -lnet -lpcap
If you need help using it, just run:
# ./icmpenum -h
This will show you how to use the tool with various options:
Here are some examples showing how powerful Icmpenum can be:
[Host1]# icmpenum 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2
This checks if both IPs are online using default Echo packets.
[Host1]# icmpenum -i 2 -v 192.168.100.100 192.168.100.200
This uses Timestamp packets in verbose mode.
[Host1]# icmpenum -i 3 -s 10.10.10.10 -p -v 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2
This uses Information packets with a spoofed address.
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