Hi,
I am toying with the idea of making a network mapper/visualizer app as my final year project..

could you please shed some light on what all work needs to be done in order to get and going with the work...

Features that i have thot that it would be having would be -
- listing neighboring machines
- OS detect using basic techniques.. or maybe using methods that nmap uses
- detecting open ports
- guessing possible services, doing banner grabbing etc
- app will also allow parameters to be passed to few external networking utilities

As I said nothing too complicated, have got 2.5 months to work on it ... I am open to learning concepts, reading RFCs etc.. gimme a light please.

Have decided to code in Java, I don't really have any experience coding network apps but since I plan to pursue career in networking/security.. some project work in this field might prove helpful in self learning and personal gains for my post graduation...