Testing firewall rules with Hping3 – examplesġ. Backtrack drop sudo as your running in root. If your good and not running in root you will require sudo.
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. The interface is inspired to the ping(8) unix command, but hping isn’t only able to send ICMP echo requests. Hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.