The hping3 command is a very powerful discovery utility that has a large range of options and modes that it can operate in. It is capable of performing discovery in both layer 3 and layer 4.
- To perform basic ICMP discovery of a single host address using hping3, you merely need to pass the IP address to be tested and the desired scanning mode of ICMP to it:
- In the demonstration provided, the process was stopped using Ctrl + C. Similar to the standard ping utility, the hping3 ICMP mode will continue indefinitely unless a specific number of packets is specified in the initial command. To define the number of attempts ...
