Configuring Autoscan in Backtrack 5

What is Autoscan?
In short Autoscan is a network discovering and managing application. It's main purpose being to quickly identify connected machines/equipment in a network environment.

• Let's quickly configure autoscan in Backtrack5, you can find it using the menu in:

BackTrack -> Information Gathering -> Network Analysis -> Network Scanners -> autoscan

• As soon as we launch it from the menu we will begin our configuration wizard, click on Forward to move on:

• Now we are going to configure a new Network and add our own data by clicking the Add button:
  
  
  
  
• Select your network interface (wlan0 in this case):

• After that we are asked to confirm our settings:

• Here is some output similar to what you will see on some devices:

                                                                                Ref: http://www.backtrack-linux.org