netscanR is an R package that allows you to scan your local network
using arp-scan. Output from arp-scan is parsed into a tibble that
can be analysed using R.
You can install the development version of netscanR from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("stibu81/netscanR")arp-scan must be installed in order for netscanR to work. You can
check that the command can be found by running
library(netscanR)
find_arp_scan()
#> [1] "/usr/sbin/arp-scan"If arp-scan is not found, an empty string is returned. On Linux, you
can usually install arp-scan from the official package repositories.
For example, on Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives, you can run
sudo apt install arp-scanarp-scan should also run on any other Linux distribution, macOS,
FreeBDS and others (see the arp-scan GitHub
readme),
and once it is installed, netscanR might be able to run. However, this
has only been tested on Ubuntu.
The version of arp-scan can be obtained from R using
arp_scan_version()
#> [1] '1.9.7'If arp-scan is not found, the returned version is 0.
netscanR has only been tested with arp-scan version 1.9.7.
Once arp-scan is installed, you can scan the local network from R
using
run_arp_scan()#> # A tibble: 8 × 4
#> interface ip mac vendor
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 wlp6s0 192.168.1.1 b1:5b:92:b5:32:d8 Unknown
#> 2 wlp6s0 192.168.1.23 3d:3d:22:38:4d:ae ACME, Inc.
#> 3 wlp6s0 192.168.1.27 31:3a:fa:32:b3:d3 Unknown: locally administered
#> 4 wlp6s0 192.168.1.113 cc:c1:79:a5:f9:f1 Some Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
#> 5 wlp6s0 192.168.1.178 ee:44:eb:bf:01:9a Unknown: locally administered
#> 6 wlp6s0 192.168.1.83 72:73:b3:17:d4:ac Unknown: locally administered
#> 7 wlp6s0 192.168.1.111 da:13:54:95:ab:63 Unknown: locally administered
#> 8 wlp6s0 192.168.1.239 f4:b5:d1:36:5e:32 Unknown