Fedora 11 Update: sing-1.1-1.fc11
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-4628
2009-05-08 20:21:16
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Name : sing
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 1.1
Release : 1.fc11
URL : http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/sing/
Summary : Sends fully customized ICMP packets from command line
Description :
Sing is a little tool that sends fully customized ICMP packets from command
line. The main purpose is to replace/complement the nice ping command with
certain enhancements as:
- Send fragmented and monster packets > 65534 bytes
- Send/read spoofed packets
- Send many ICMP Information types in addition to the echo request type,
sent by default as address mask request, timestamp, information request,
router solicitation and router advertisement
- Send many ICMP error types: redirect, source quench, time exceeded,
destination unreach and parameter problem
- Send to host with loose or strict source routing
- Use little fingerprinting techniques to discover Windows or Solaris boxes
- Send ICMP packets emulating certain OS: Cisco, Solaris, Linux, Shiva,
Unix and Windows at the moment
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Update Information:
Sing is a little tool that sends fully customized ICMP packets from command
line. The main purpose is to replace/complement the nice ping command with
certain enhancements as: - Send fragmented and monster packets > 65534 bytes
- Send/read spoofed packets - Send many ICMP Information types in addition to
the echo request type, sent by default as address mask request, timestamp,
information request, router solicitation and router advertisement - Send many
ICMP error types: redirect, source quench, time exceeded, destination unreach
and parameter problem - Send to host with loose or strict source routing -
Use little fingerprinting techniques to discover Windows or Solaris boxes -
Send ICMP packets emulating certain OS: Cisco, Solaris, Linux, Shiva, Unix and
Windows at the moment
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ChangeLog:
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update sing' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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