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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition
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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition

by Paulino Calderon
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
21h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

Let's say that we want to respond to an ICMP echo request packet with an echo reply using Nping. Consider that the first ICMP echo request packet has a source IP of 192.168.0.10 with an ICMP ID of 520, and the data string was the word ping. With that information, we can craft the reply with the following command:

#nping --icmp -c 1 --icmp-type 0 --icmp-code 0 --source-ip192.168.0.5 --dest-ip 192.168.0.10 --icmp-id 520 --icmp-seq 0--data-string 'ping'  

In the output, you should see the sent ICMP echo reply packet with the values taken from the ICMP echo request packets:

   SENT (0.0060s) ICMP [192.168.0.5 > 192.168.0.10 Echo reply       (type=0/code=0) id=520 seq=0] IP [ttl=64 id=10898 iplen=32 ]  Max rtt: N/A | Min rtt: N/A | Avg ...
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ISBN: 9781786467454