Penetration Testing: Re: hping and firewall testing

[Alvin Oga <alvin.sec () Mail Linux-Consulting com>]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Doug Fox wrote:

> hping2 is a feature rich utility.  However it is new to me.  Could you some 
> please tell me which syntax(es) could I do to test our firewall externally?
http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Firewall/Testing/

c ya
alvin
 
> I am trying to use HPING to find out the firewall which nmap and nessus 
> could not find.
>
> The nmap syntax is nmap -v -sT sV -P0 -O.
>
> Any suggestions/comments/advise are much appreciated.