Posted by Jeffory Atkinson on Oct 01
All depends on what you are trying to achieve. I would assume that you are not concerned about monitoring devicesseeing you have done a ping sweep with nmap. I agree with others a port scan is going to give you the best idea if a
host is active. There are Many instances filtering devices can drop icmp or respond for hosts behind them. Open ports
and services are the best identifiers. A port has to be open in some form (open or filtered) to...