After a little problem regarding a lost Wireless access point IP address (now fixed) I'm now looking for a good open source network scanning program for next time, I've found Cheops and Cheops-ng but both are unmaintained, anyone know of similar maintained programs.

Prefrably ones that actually draw a network map.

Like Kismet or Netstumbler?

no i think they actually mean wired / ethernet networks, the wireless address was more of an example of a box on an ethernet network. personally i'm not familiar with anything small that does this, if you do mean exploring layer 3 topologies, it's really a very hard thing to do when you come to implement it. i know opennms can do this, but i can't see you wanting to install an enterprise monitoring server for this one function.

OpenNMS looks good but its far to heavy for me. And acid_keypie is right, I'm intrested in mapping networks not discovering avalible wireless networks.

why not nmap? - it will tell you where and what things are

Nmap dosn't actually draw maps.

You can use dia to manually create a network drawing. unfortunately short of Cheops I have not found a Linux based Automated Network Drawing application.

Kivio is another Program that can be used to make manual network Diagrams.

This article is out of date but shows some other programs..
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/...inuxAdmin.html

It may even be faster to make your drawings manually.. when using Visio for automated drawing I spent more time trying to move things around and get the proper labels on them than when I finally gave up and just did the whole thing manually..

The majority of third party network discovery/Drawing applications plug into visio to make the actual network Diagram. i.e. FlukeNetworks OptiviewConsole which did a better job of network discovery than the Visio product and provided a more detailed output USING Visio to generate the drawing.

Please report back if you find anything else for Linux, or if you locate where someone has picked up the Cheops project and continued it..

i really think the emphasis is one discovery, not the actual drawing of it.. you can draw a network diagram in ms paint if you already know it...

Nah this thread is about drawing, between nmap, ping and traceroute discovery is pritty much wrapped up for a small home network like mine.

oh well, suit yourself i guess... dia (the most hideous vector drawing tool in the universe) it is.

U can use HPING2 or HPING3

thanks, but please don't drag up old threads.