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How to search for SSH ports

In order to scan for SSH ports in a particular subnet, use the following command

sudo nmap -sS -p 22 <target>

The following is an example.

sudo nmap -sS -p 22 192.168.1.0/24

The 0/24 declaration defines the length of the subnet mask. Without going into too many details, this simply means that it scans the last 256 address from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255.

The following is an example output

Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at xxxxxx
...
Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.2
Host is up (0.0090s latency).

PORT   STATE    SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
MAC Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:x (ABCD)
...

In this example, port 22 (SSH) is open on the IP address 192.168.1.2.