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authoratatat <atatat@pkgsrc.org>2002-04-04 17:02:30 +0000
committeratatat <atatat@pkgsrc.org>2002-04-04 17:02:30 +0000
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downloadpkgsrc-0fc5d6b01c1b853df6e8fe699b6f270cd4d6c866.tar.gz
Add a pkg for hping (aka hping2). Sort of an amalgam of ping,
traceroute, and nmap, hping can be used to traceroute through packet filtering routers. Among other things.
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+hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.
+The interface is inspired by 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 covert 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.