Layer 4 discovery - TCP and UDP

Unlike Nmap, hping3 makes it very easy to identify hosts that are discovered by UDP probes by isolating the task.

  1. By specifying the UDP mode with the --udp option, UDP probes can be transmitted in attempts to trigger replies from live hosts:
  1. In the demonstration provided, the process was stopped using Ctrl + C. When using hping3 in UDP mode, discovery will continue indefinitely unless a specific number of packets is defined in the initial command. To define the number of attempts to be sent, the -c option should be included with an integer value that indicates the desired number of attempts:
  1. Although ...

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