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Migrate to a better host discovery lib #2

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timothy-b opened this issue Oct 1, 2019 · 3 comments
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Migrate to a better host discovery lib #2

timothy-b opened this issue Oct 1, 2019 · 3 comments

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@timothy-b
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Move away from arpscan and to libnmap, node-nmap, or lan-discovery.

Arpscan doesn't seem to work so well with certain sleeping devices...
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Can you elaborate? What specific devices/scenarios is arpscan failing to find devices?

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Specifically, my roommate's iPhone. I guess that sleeping devices may not respond to arpscan requests, especially given that his has a static IP for some reason, but pings or port scans may be more effective.

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🤔
I can occasionally get it with an ARP scan, but not always. If I start pinging the device, the first ping takes several seconds before I get a response. A cheap hack alternative to using some other library might be to instead ping the broadcast address (i.e., ping -b 10.0.0.255) for a few seconds before (or while) ARP-scanning, instead of just ARP-scanning once as I'm currently doing.

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