SoftPerfect's Netscan is a fast universal IPv4/IPv6 scanner with an extensive range of options and advanced features for system administrators and general users interested in computer security. This powerful program can ping computers, scan ports, discover shared folders and comes with flexible filtering and display options. It can retrieve practically any information about network devices via WMI, SNMP, HTTP, SSH and PowerShell.
This article will show you the following:
Performs a ping sweep and displays live devices.
Fully supports both IPv4 and IPv6 discovery.
Detects hardware MAC-addresses, even across routers.
Detects hidden shared folders and writable ones.
Detects internal and external IP addresses.
Scans for listening TCP ports, some UDP and SNMP services.
Methods:
Download the app, netscan.exe, and run it.
Click Discover Active DHCP Server button at the top.
Run this to check to make sure that there are no conflicting DHCP servers.
Click the Auto Detect IP Range button.
Select the local IP address.
Click Start Scanning
Review the information you are looking for.
Right click on the object for additional options that will take you to their IP.
