castellan2004-nsm@yahoo.com wrote:

I am being tasked to map a network. In the past I have used nmap to find the systems on the local LAN and remote LANs (same enterprise).

This time I want to create a visual map of the LAN. With cheops, I reasonably good results but cannot be documented for managers with certainty. What are some good tools now that will create visual maps of the networks?

What is the best way to map a network when ICMP echo has been turned off?

I've had success using Scapy (http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/) and tying it into Graphviz. It can do TCP traces too and has all sorts of built in visualisation options. And look at the bottom here http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/demo.html

Hello Subba , On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, castellan2004-nsm@yahoo.com wrote:

I am being tasked to map a network. In the past I have used nmap to find the systems on the local LAN and remote LANs (same enterprise). This time I want to create a visual map of the LAN. With cheops, I reasonably good results but cannot be documented for managers with certainty. What are some good tools now that will create visual maps of the networks? nmap can do this now , so I've been told .

What is the best way to map a network when ICMP echo has been turned off? Thank you in advance for any help. Subba Rao

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