The summary includes the number of hosts that are alive and the number of hosts that have open ports. Once completed, the application will show you a summary of the scan. To start off, set the scan mode to “IP Range,” enter the IP address range in the “IP address” fields and then click on the button “Start.” For instance, I’ve entered an IP range that is known to have live devices connected to it.ĭepending on the number of addresses in the range, it may take some time to complete. Once you are done configuring the Angry IP Scanner, you can continue to scan. If you want to scan a range of ports, then enter the port range like “1-1000.” After you have entered the port number, click on OK to save the changes. As you can see, I’m scanning for port 80 and port 443. Here, navigate to the “Ports” tab and enter the ports you want to scan in the “Ports Selection” field.
To do that, simply navigate to “Tools” and then select the option “Preferences.” So, if you want to do a port scan, then you need to configure the application. It will not list the individual ports that are open. Moreover, Angry IP Scanner will only tell whether the ports are open or not.
In my case, I’ve added new fetchers like MAC address, NetBIOS info, Filtered ports, and the Web detects. To add a fetcher, select the fetcher on the right pane and then click on the button that looks like “Less than” sign. In this window, you will see all the current fetchers on the left pane and all the available fetchers in the right pane. However, you can add more fetchers to get and see more information about an IP address. You can easily select the scan mode from the drop-down menu next to the IP address field.Īs you can see from the above image, the Angry IP Scanner will only include default fetchers like Ping, Hostname, and Ports. They are, the range you specified, a random IP address or a list of IP addresses from a text file. The good thing about Angry IP Scanner is that it lets you scan IP addresses in three different ways. By default, Angry IP scanner will enter your local IP address range and your computer name as the hostname. As you can see, the home screen of the application is pretty simple and straightforward. Once installed, open the application by searching for it in the Start Menu.
To start off, download Angry IP Scanner and install it like any other Windows software. Using Angry IP Scanner to scan IP addresses and hosts is really easy. Note: You need to have Java installed on your system for angry IP scanner to run. However, the process is similar for the Mac and Linux variants.
It helps you to scan a range of IP addresses to find live hosts, open ports, and other relevant information of each and every IP address.įor this article, I’m using the Windows 10 variant of Angry IP Scanner. In order to increase scanning speed, it uses multithreaded approach: a separate scanning thread is created for each scanned IP address.Angry IP Scanner is a free, lightweight, cross-platform, and open source tool to scan networks.
Anybody who can write Java code is able to write plugins and extend functionality of Angry IP Scanner. With help of plugins, Angry IP Scanner can gather any information about scanned IPs. Scanning results can be saved to CSV, TXT, XML or IP-Port list files. It also has additional features, like NetBIOS information (computer name, workgroup name, and currently logged in Windows user), favorite IP address ranges, web server detection, customizable openers, etc. The amount of gathered data about each host can be extended with plugins. Not requiring any installations, it can be freely copied and used anywhere.Īngry IP scanner simply pings each IP address to check if it’s alive, then optionally it is resolving its hostname, determines the MAC address, scans ports, etc. Angry IP Scanner can scan IP addresses in any range as well as any their ports.