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Bug#522830: O: hping3 -- Active Network Smashing Tool



Hi,
* Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> [2009-04-07 10:03]:
> I intend to orphan the hping3 package.
> 
> The package description is:
>  hping3 is a network tool able to send custom ICMP/UDP/TCP packets and
>  to display target replies like ping does with ICMP replies. It handles
>  fragmentation and arbitrary packet body and size, and can be used to
>  transfer files under supported protocols. Using hping3, you can test
>  firewall rules, perform (spoofed) port scanning, test network
>  performance using different protocols, do path MTU discovery, perform
>  traceroute-like actions under different protocols, fingerprint remote
>  operating systems, audit TCP/IP stacks, etc.  hping3 is scriptable
>  using the Tcl language.

What is the reason for orphaning it? I might be interested 
in taking it over.

Cheers
Nico
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