# The net/hping port

## hping-2.0.0rc3p2 – TCP/UDP ping/traceroute tool

## Description

    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 just
    for sending ICMP echo requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP
    protocols, has a traceroute mode, the ability to send files in 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. 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

    N.B. the message "[send_ip] sendto: No route to host" often indicates
    that sending a packet has been blocked by PF on the local machine.

WWW: http://www.hping.org/

Categories:
  net

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=1.21:textproc/groff

## Run dependencies