python-netdiscover 0.3.0

Installation

First, you will need to install the netdiscover binary on your system, this may depend on your operating system. Many distributions have this tool available in their main repository.

From the shell, uncompress python-netdiscover.tar.gz and then run make :

$ tar xvzf python-netdiscover.tar.gz
$ cd python-netdiscover
$ python setup.py install

or using Pip

$ pip install python-netdiscover

Usage

From python/ipython:

>>> from netdiscover import *
>>> disc = Discover()
>>> disc.scan(ip_range="192.168.1.0/24")
[{'mac': b'73:8b:10:0e:bd:23', 'ip': b'192.168.1.1'}, {'mac': b'f4:3c:4a:73:47:07', 'ip': b'192.168.1.2'}]

Notes

This tool needs to be run as root. It is necessary to be presented on the system the netdiscover tool. The library will look for the netdiscovery binary in the following paths:

• netdiscover

• /usr/bin/netdiscover

• /usr/sbin/netdiscover

• /usr/local/bin/netdiscover

• /sw/bin/netdiscover

• /opt/local/bin/netdiscover

If netdiscovery is not present in any of the paths above, you can specifie path with the argument netdiscover_path on Discover class.

disc = Discover(netdiscover_path="path_of_netdiscover")