92  netdiscover(1) - Kailash Tool Reference

92.1 netdiscover

netdiscover - Network address discovery via ARP — kept per the §3.2 ethernet rule.

Layer CLASSIC
Category c-01-information-gathering
Safety class safe
Licence GPL-3.0-or-later
Upstream github.com/netdiscover-scanner/netdiscover

92.1.1 NAME

netdiscover - Network address discovery via ARP — kept per the §3.2 ethernet rule.

92.1.2 SYNOPSIS & usage

Derived from the upstream README at generation time; verify against --help where the tool is installed.

$ ./update-oui-database.sh (optional, to update the MAC addresses list)
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

92.1.3 DESCRIPTION (upstream)

by Jaime Penalba Welcome to official Netdiscover repository (since Feb. 05, 2019). Netdiscover is a network address discovering tool, developed mainly for those wireless networks without dhcp server, it also works on hub/switched networks. Its based on arp packets, it will send arp requests and sniff for replies. Its my first public C tool, so don’t be too hard with me, if some parts on the code looks like obfuscated or are unreadable, and feel free to send suggestions to https://github.com/netdiscover-scanner/netdiscover/issues or patches (PR) to https://github.com/netdiscover-scanner/netdiscover/pulls. Also notify me for any bug or compilation error, it must compile

92.1.4 SEE ALSO

ref: pin - verified 2026-10-14