pkgsrc/net/hping/DESCR
atatat 0fc5d6b01c 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.
2002-04-04 17:02:30 +00:00

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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.