Information Gathering

A information gathering is a way of operation in which we gather the information about network topology. according to UConfigIt there are two way of information gathering for collect the network topology information.

1. Host Information Gathering
2. Network Information Gathering

1. Host Information Gathering(Nmap)

A host information gathering is way of collect the specific host information. In software market available lots of application software which we can use in host information gathering.

Example: Nmap(Network Mapper)

2. Network Information Gathering(Wireshark)

A network information gathering is way of collect the specific network information. There are lots of method which use in network information gathering.

Method 1: By using administrator tools

Example : arp table(In case of IPv4), neighbors table(In case of IPv6), Routing table(Any type of routing and static route) and others administrator tools. 

Method 2: by using third party software 

Example : Wire Shark

Thanks 

Himanshu