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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.

Hping works on the following unix-like systems: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, MacOs X, Windows.

Source: Hping - Active Network Security Tool