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ike-scan

Discover and fingerprint IKE hosts (IPsec VPN Servers)

network-service-discoveryRed Team
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Platforms: Linux · Last verified September 6, 2026

ike-scan discovers IKE hosts and can also fingerprint them using the retransmission backoff pattern.

Only use this tool against systems you own or are explicitly authorized to test — see the disclaimer.

Getting started

See the official Kali tool page and upstream homepage linked above for installation and usage details.

Commonly preinstalled on

Kali Linux

Debian-based distribution built for penetration testing and security auditing