Boreas is a command line tool to scan for alive hosts. It supports IPv4 and IPv6 address ranges and allows to exclude certain addresses from a range. The alive ping tests support ICMP, TCP-ACK, TCP-SYN and ARP and any combination. For TCP ping an individual port list can be applied.

All release files are signed with the Greenbone Community Feed integrity key. This gpg key can be downloaded at https://www.greenbone.net/GBCommunitySigningKey.asc and the fingerprint is 8AE4 BE42 9B60 A59B 311C 2E73 9823 FAA6 0ED1 E580.

This module can be configured, built and installed with following commands:

cmake .
make install

For detailed installation requirements and instructions, please see the file INSTALL.md.

$ sudo boreas --target "127.0.0.1-10" --exclude "127.0.0.5" --ports "80" --icmp --tcp-ack

For a detailed description of all available options see the manpage. For a short list of available options use the -h command.

For any question on the usage of boreas please use the Greenbone Community Portal. If you found a problem with the software, please create an issue on GitHub. If you are a Greenbone customer you may alternatively or additionally forward your issue to the Greenbone Support Portal.

This project is maintained by Greenbone AG.

Your contributions are highly appreciated. Please create a pull request on GitHub. Bigger changes need to be discussed with the development team via the issues section at GitHub first.

Before creating a pull request, it is recommended to run the following command:

make format

This reformats the new code to ensure that it follows the code style and formatting guidelines.

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