nmap scan

[Patrigo]

Hello

I'm at work and doing a VPN-connection to my home network. Now I wanted to find out which hosts are up but I can't find a way with nmap to make it work.

I tried:
nmap -sP 192.168.1.* (all hosts are up)
nmap -sn 192.168.1.* (all hosts are up)
nmap -PE 192.168.1.* (all hosts are up)

I thought they are ping requests and don't get it why they get an reply. What else could I try to get the right result? I also tried other variations with different timings -T but i still don't get the desired result.

When I manually ping or use Angry IP Scanner I get the right result which is about 3 Hosts. Any pointer?

Thanks
Pat

[p.H]

Are you sure that 192.168.1.* is a valid address specification ?
What about 192.168.1.0/24 ?

[TonyT]

Scan a single IP nmap 192.168.1.1
Scan a range of IPs nmap 192.168.1.1-20
Scan a subnet nmap 192.168.1.0/24

[Patrigo]

Yep wildcard is allowed and your examples work as well. But anyway there is no difference to the result. Any idea?

[acewiza]

The last -PE switch set in your examples needs root. But they all three return expected results on my network:

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Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (19 hosts up) scanned in 2.15 seconds

Definitely something unusual going on there, but I have no idea exactly what.

[Patrigo]

Okay I found the problem. I was running the distro in VirtualBox with NAT and as soon as I changed it to Bridged mode it worked.

[kopper]

Okay I found the problem..

Good for you. Could you mark the topic as solved?

I was running the distro in VirtualBox with NAT...

For your next topic, stuff like this would be crucial to mention in the OP. Not that I would have known what's the solution in this specific case, but as a general note.