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hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer. The interface
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is inspired to the ping(8) unix command, but hping isn't only able to send ICMP
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echo requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols, has a traceroute
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mode, the ability to send files between a covered channel, and many other
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features.
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While hping was mainly used as a security tool in the past, it can be used in
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many ways by people that don't care about security to test networks and hosts. A
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subset of the stuff you can do using hping:
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* Firewall testing
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* Advanced port scanning
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* Network testing, using different protocols, TOS, fragmentation
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* Manual path MTU discovery
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* Advanced traceroute, under all the supported protocols
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* Remote OS fingerprinting
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* Remote uptime guessing
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* TCP/IP stacks auditing
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* hping can also be useful to students that are learning TCP/IP.
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