General Discussion about netscanner

[Chleba]

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[zoza1982]

Hi there, thank you for the amazing tool that you built for the community. I am a big fan. I wanted to contribute , being AI augmented Infrastructure engineer , I use a lot of Agentic tooling and I am able to make a large contribution quite quickly. I did not wanted to overwhelm you with a PR just yet until you review my fork and test it yourself. Please feel free to review in my fork all closed PR's and commits.

My fork: https://github.com/zoza1982/netscanner

Let me know , I would love to open PR against your repo as its original repo as I don't have intention to maintain a fork.
And I am able to contribute directly into your repo in the future. We can discuss further ideas.
I am happy to connect [email protected] / https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoran-vukmirica-22275a17/

[zoza1982]

Sounds good! thanks!

[Chleba]

ok, I did checked Your changes, checked out your fork and try it and there is a few errors.

• when I scan all clients and trying to scan ports at multiple clients I get an error - out of variants or something (idk what is that mean and i didn't put it there so it's in your changes)
• i would really like to remove all of that endless comments that those agents put in everywhere
• i don't have any IPv6 network to test Your added feature to scan IPv6 networks, so my question is: "did you test that thoroughly ?"

[zoza1982]

Sorry I've been traveling.
I will get these issue fixed.
I had limited ipv6 testing too but it I did run a test against google ipv6 DNS. I will share more details

[zoza1982]

Thanks for finding that issue when scannig multiple hosts. It has ben fixed and merged into my main branch. I was able to reproduce same issue and verified after the fix. It works now.

Excessive comments are removed. I agree, it was a bit too much.
Feel free to refresh my main branch and re-test it.

I re-checked the Ipv6 testing, and here is the instructions :

Quick IPv6 Testing

1. Test with Google DNS (Easiest)

sudo ./target/release/netscanner

In Discovery tab:

• Enter CIDR: 2001:4860:4860::8888/128
• Press s to scan
• Should discover Google's IPv6 DNS server

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2. Test with Cloudflare DNS

In Discovery tab:

• Enter: 2606:4700:4700::1111/128
• Press s to scan

[zoza1982]

• NDP (Neighbor Discovery) only works for local network hosts
• Internet hosts (Google DNS, etc.) won't show MAC addresses
• This is expected and normal

[zoza1982]

@Chleba is everything OK with the PR? Are you planning to merge it? If not, I can withdraw if something is not good.