hping3
Advanced ping utility which supports protocols such TCP, UDP, and raw IP. Best run with elevated privileges. More information: https://github.com/antirez/hping.
- Ping a destination with 4 ICMP ping requests:
hping3 --icmp --count 4 ip_or_hostname
- Ping an IP address over UDP on port 80:
hping3 --udp --destport 80 --syn ip_or_hostname
- Scan TCP port 80, scanning from the specific local source port 5090:
hping3 --verbose --syn --destport 80 --baseport 5090 ip_or_hostname
- Traceroute using a TCP scan to a specific destination port:
hping3 --traceroute --verbose --syn --destport 80 ip_or_hostname
- Scan a set of TCP ports on a specific IP address:
hping3 --scan 80,3000,9000 --syn ip_or_hostname
- Perform a TCP ACK scan to check if a given host is alive:
hping3 --count 2 --verbose --destport 80 --ack ip_or_hostname
- Perform a charge test on port 80:
hping3 --flood --destport 80 --syn ip_or_hostname