Network Client Discovery

If you need to audit the security of your WiFi network, you can use a tool like Android Network Discovery. With Android Network Discovery, you will be able to discover all the hosts of your WiFi network and scan the ports of each one of them. Android Network Discovery is a tool that you can use to find out if someone is connected to your network without authorization.

This network management tool has a very basic user interface with features that are kept to a minimum. However, these functions are enough to maintain the basic security of a WiFi network, providing features such as the following:

Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS/DNS-SD protocol suite. This enables you to plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. Compatible technology is found in Apple MacOS X (branded “Bonjour” and sometimes “Zeroconf”).

Avahi is primarily targetted at Linux systems and ships by default in most distributions. It is not ported to Windows at this stage, but will run on many other BSD-like systems. The primary API is D-Bus and is required for usage of most of Avahi, however services can be published using an XML service definition placed in /etc/avahi/services.

See also the nss-mdns project, which allows hostname lookup of *.local hostnames via mDNS in all system programs using nsswitch.

Features

• Discover devices connected to a network.
• Port scanning.
• Database of network card manufacturers.
• Possibility to change the name for connected devices to identify them more quickly.
• Export the results in XML files.
• To make the tool work, you just need to be connected to your network.