Re: Scanning Class A network

From: David Eduardo Acosta Rodríguez (david.acosta@internet-solutions.com.co)
Date: Mon Oct 24 2005 - 13:47:21 EDT


Hi:

Check this: http://www.unicornscan.org/main.html. Unicornscan is meant for
testing extremely large networks, and will take CIDR notation as target
input. To scan a single IP you would specify 192.168.1.1/32. For a "class
B" sized network, you would specify 172.16.0.0/16, etc.

"Unicornscan is an attempt at a User-land Distributed TCP/IP stack. It is
intended to provide a researcher a superior interface for introducing a
stimulus into and measuring a response from a TCP/IP enabled device or
network. Although it currently has hundreds of individual features, a main
set of abilities include:
  a.. Asynchronous stateless TCP scanning with all variations of TCP Flags.
  b.. Asynchronous stateless TCP banner grabbing
  c.. Asynchronous protocol specific UDP Scanning (sending enough of a
signature to elicit a response).
  d.. Active and Passive remote OS, application, and component
identification by analyzing responses.
  e.. PCAP file logging and filtering
  f.. Relational database output
  g.. Custom module support
  h.. Customized data-set views "
Unicornscan can be used as a very fast, very scalable port scanner. It uses
CPU specific instructions to track the packets per second you specify as
closely as possible. From a single Pentium system, it is typical to be able
to generate up to 160,000 pps or more. The pps limit will scale with your
architecture accordingly. This single system pps limit is an artificial
limit however as we have also built in an InterProcess Communications (IPC)
channel to allow for scaling between
multiples of scanners working together. Because of the great speed and pps
generation potential, an increased sophistication will be required to
properly harness the power of Unicornscan.

Estaré atento a cualquier duda, comentario o inquietud adicional.

Cordial saludo,

         Ing. David E. Acosta R.
      Security Consultant - CISSP
       Internet Solutions Colombia
  "The Information Security Experts"
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----- Original Message -----
From: <tarunthenut@gmail.com>
To: <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 7:33 AM
Subject: Scanning Class A network

> Hello All,
> Recently I was given a task to carry out a port scan of an entire valid
> Class A range (Dont ask me what the huge pool of valid IP's was for
:) ).
> The scan needed to be carried out externally, and not from within the
> network to identify hosts and ports exposed to the Internet.
> The problem compounded cause of the following limitations :
> 1. ICMP was not allowed in the network
> 2. The IP range was to be scanned every month for the entire port range
fro=
> m
> 1-65535 for TCP & UDP
> After searching for a suitable scanner which could scan such a large
range
> in reasonable time, I could think of only nmap, nessus, superscan and ISS.
> But because of the limitations stated above,all the tools took a huge
> amount of time (ran into month).
> I have struggled with options within the tools, tried configurable
> parameters (host time out, parallelism, RTT etc) and divided into smaller
> class C networks and scanned.but still the scan seems to take ages even if
> it is
> Any advise would be welcome :)
>
> Cheers
> tarunthenut
>
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