# Hping

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Open-source packet generator and analyzer

hping Developer Salvatore Sanfilippo (Antirez) Stable release hping3-20051105 / 5 November 2005 Written in C Operating system Cross-platform Platform CLI Type Computer security License GNU General Public License v2 Website https://github.com/antirez/hping Repository github.com/antirez/hping

**hping** is an open-source [packet generator](/source/Packet_generator) and analyzer for the [TCP/IP](/source/TCP%2FIP) protocol created by [Salvatore Sanfilippo](/source/Salvatore_Sanfilippo) (also known as Antirez). It is one of the common tools used for security auditing and testing of [firewalls](/source/Firewall_(computing)) and networks, and was used to exploit the [idle scan](/source/Idle_scan) scanning technique (also invented by the hping author), and now implemented in the [Nmap Security Scanner](/source/Nmap). The new version of hping, hping3, is scriptable using the [Tcl](/source/Tcl_(programming_language)) language and implements an engine for string based, human-readable description of [TCP/IP](/source/TCP%2FIP) packets so that the programmer can write scripts related to low level [TCP/IP](/source/TCP%2FIP) packet manipulation and analysis in a short time.

## See also

- [Free and open-source software portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_and_open-source_software)

- [Nmap Security Scanner](/source/Nmap): Nmap and hping are often considered complementary to one another.

- [Mausezahn](/source/Mausezahn): Another fast and versatile packet generator that also supports Ethernet header manipulation.

- [Packet Sender](/source/Packet_Sender): A packet generator with a focus on ease of use.

## External links

- [The Hping Website](http://www.hping.org/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20171219210137/http://www.hping.org/) 2017-12-19 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

- [The Hping Wiki](http://wiki.hping.org/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20171219210137/http://www.hping.org/) 2017-12-19 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

- [Idle Scanning](http://nmap.org/idlescan.html), paper by Nmap author [Fyodor](/source/Gordon_Lyon).

- [Hping 2 Fixed for Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2)](http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/07/hping-2-fixed-for-windows-xp-sp2-service-pack-2/)

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