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diff --git a/network/hping3/README b/network/hping3/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..acfffada38352 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/hping3/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer. The interface +is inspired to the ping(8) unix command, but hping isn't only able to send ICMP +echo requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols, has a traceroute +mode, the ability to send files between a covered channel, and many other +features. + +While hping was mainly used as a security tool in the past, it can be used in +many ways by people that don't care about security to test networks and hosts. A +subset of the stuff you can do using hping: + * Firewall testing + * Advanced port scanning + * Network testing, using different protocols, TOS, fragmentation + * Manual path MTU discovery + * Advanced traceroute, under all the supported protocols + * Remote OS fingerprinting + * Remote uptime guessing + * TCP/IP stacks auditing + * hping can also be useful to students that are learning TCP/IP. |