Re: What would we want in a new Netcat/Hping?

[Martin Mačok <martin.macok () underground cz>]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:36:32AM -0700, Fyodor wrote:

> Netcat has been totally unmaintained for about a decade, and I think
> Nmap users would benefit from a tool similar to hping2 that is more
> oriented toward their needs.

I'm still happy with hping2 (ok, lets forget about the patches we had
to apply to it ;-) *except* its poor ICMP support (sing is better here).

Anyway, your proposal for Netcat enhancement almost exactly fits
Socat. Have you heard of it? Wonderful tool (and GPL) ...

http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/

Martin Mačok
ICT Security Consultant


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