![]() ![]() Nping is part of the nmap package and it’s installed by default if you install nmap on your Linux system with: apt-get install nmap It can manipulate pretty much any parameter and field of TCP, UDP, ICMP packets, and it can be used for network stack stress testing, ARP poisoning, Denial of Service attacks, route tracing, etc. Nping can do so much more than simple ICMP pinging. I was surprised I didn’t know about nping because it’s a very well maintained and updated utility, while some of the ones listed above are unmaintained and haven’t aged well over the years. I am sure I will discover a couple more in the following years. There are so many ping variations out there: ping, fping, hping3, psping, hrping. And every so often a new one pops into my radar, and I keep repeating “How come I didn’t know about this already?” In this case, the utility in question is nping. We’ve talked about several testing utilities in the past such as ping, traceroute, iperf, and others.
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