hping is an open-source packet generator and analyzer for the TCP/IP protocol created by Salvatore Sanfilippo (also known as Antirez). It is one of the common tools used for security auditing and testing of firewalls and networks, and was used to exploit the idle scan scanning technique (also invented by the hping author), and now implemented in the Nmap Security Scanner. The new version of hping, hping3, is scriptable using the Tcl language and implements an engine for string based, human-readable description of TCP/IP packets so that the programmer can write scripts related to low level TCP/
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hping is an open-source packet generator and analyzer for the TCP/IP protocol created by Salvatore Sanfilippo (also known as Antirez). It is one of the common tools used for security auditing and testing of firewalls and networks, and was used to exploit the idle scan scanning technique (also invented by the hping author), and now implemented in the Nmap Security Scanner. The new version of hping, hping3, is scriptable using the Tcl language and implements an engine for string based, human-readable description of TCP/IP packets so that the programmer can write scripts related to low level TCP/IP packet manipulation and analysis in a short time.
==See also== Nmap Security Scanner: Nmap and hping are often considered complementary to one another. Mausezahn: Another fast and versatile packet generator that also supports Ethernet header manipulation. Packet Sender: A packet generator with a focus on ease of use.
hping3 is a network tool able to send custom TCP/IP packets and to display target replies like ping do with ICMP replies. hping3 can handle fragmentation, and almost arbitrary packet size and content, using the command line interface. Since version 3, hping implements scripting capabilties, read the API.txt file under the /docs directory to know more about it. As a command line utility, hping is useful to test at many kind of networking devices like firewalls, routers, and so. It can be used as a traceroute alike program over all the supported protocols, firewalk usage, OS fingerprinting, port-scanner (see the --scan option introduced with hping3), TCP/IP stack auditing. Using Tcl/Tk scripting much more can be done, because while the hping3 packet generation code is actually the hping2 put there mainly for compatibility with the command line interface, all the real news are about scripting. See the libs directory for example scripts. To run the example scripts type: hping3 is developed and manteined by [email protected] with the help of other hackers, and comes under GPL version 2 of license. Development is open so you can send me patches/suggestions/affronts without inhibitions. Please check the AUTHORS file for a list of people that contribued with code, ideas, bug reports.
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