

It is also useful for network administrators to audit network security and manage services, and for developers to debug network protocols.

Hping is an integrated packet crafting and manipulating tool that can be used to create, send, and receive custom TCP/IP packets.

It works on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows operating systems. Idle Scanning, paper by Nmap author Fyodor.Hping is a free open source command line utility and an easy-to-use tool for network exploration, security scanning, packet crafting, and network testing.Packet Sender: A packet generator with a focus on ease of use.Mausezahn: Another fast and versatile packet generator that also supports Ethernet header manipulation.Nmap Security Scanner: Nmap and hping are often considered complementary to one another.The new version of hping, hping3, is scriptable using the Tcl language and implements an engine for string based, human-readable description of TCP/IP packets so that the programmer can write scripts related to low level TCP/IP packet manipulation and analysis in a short time.

It is one of the common tools used for security auditing and testing of firewalls and networks, and was used to exploit the idle scan scanning technique (also invented by the hping author), and now implemented in the Nmap Security Scanner. Hping is an open-source packet generator and analyzer for the TCP/IP protocol created by Salvatore Sanfilippo (also known as Antirez).
