Install nmap if you don't already have it on your Linux computer. Run "sudo apt-get install nmap" on Ubuntu, or "sudo dnf install nmap" on Fedora. To do a quick scan of your network and discover the ...

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Use nmap –sP host to perform a ping sweep, where host is the individual hostname or IP address you wish to target or a range of addresses by writing in CIDR-style format with /numbits appended to an ...

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