The following is a link to an article, Network Discovery Steps Up a Gear by Bryan Betts, that I found to be relevant to topics we are discussing in class about Networking Discovery:
http://www.techworld.com/networking/features/index.cfm?featureid=3427
The article points out that most existing network discovery tools are active which means they are installed at one point on the network and send out packets. This presents a problem because the major operating systems now ship with personal firewalls and cannot be detected. In addition, the discovery is not real-time or complete.
There is another issue with network discover; locating the connections into and out of the network.
There is a new system called IPsonar that has the ability to discover more of a network than an active scanner because it mines information in your routers and scans the address blocks you tell it to. IPsonar discovers 20% more of the clients network than they even knew existed. The focus of this network is discovering and understanding the flows on the network (how the devices connect to one another.
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It is always interesting to hear the new and innovative ways companies are doing business.
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