-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-3990 2009-04-27 20:38:05 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : sing Product : Fedora 10 Version : 1.1 Release : 1.fc10 URL : http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/sing/ Summary : Sends fully customized ICMP packets from command line Description : Sing is a little tool that sends fully customized ICMP packets from command line. The main purpose is to replace/complement the nice ping command with certain enhancements as: - Send fragmented and monster packets > 65534 bytes - Send/read spoofed packets - Send many ICMP Information types in addition to the echo request type, sent by default as address mask request, timestamp, information request, router solicitation and router advertisement - Send many ICMP error types: redirect, source quench, time exceeded, destination unreach and parameter problem - Send to host with loose or strict source routing - Use little fingerprinting techniques to discover Windows or Solaris boxes - Send ICMP packets emulating certain OS: Cisco, Solaris, Linux, Shiva, Unix and Windows at the moment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Sing is a little tool that sends fully customized ICMP packets from command line. The main purpose is to replace/complement the nice ping command with certain enhancements as: - Send fragmented and monster packets > 65534 bytes - Send/read spoofed packets - Send many ICMP Information types in addition to the echo request type, sent by default as address mask request, timestamp, information request, router solicitation and router advertisement - Send many ICMP error types: redirect, source quench, time exceeded, destination unreach and parameter problem - Send to host with loose or strict source routing - Use little fingerprinting techniques to discover Windows or Solaris boxes - Send ICMP packets emulating certain OS: Cisco, Solaris, Linux, Shiva, Unix and Windows at the moment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update sing' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce