🖥️nping

➡️This is a command-line reference manual for commands and command combinations that you don’t use often enough to remember it. This cheatsheet explains the nping command with important options and switches using examples.

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# To perform a TCP connect() (handshake) with a host
nping --tcp-connect [target host]

# To perform a TCP connect() 
nping --tcp-connect [target host] [target host] [target host] 

# To attempt a TCP handshake on a port range (1-80)
nping --tcp-connect [target host] -p1-80 -c 1

# To send a UDP packet with 50 bytes of random data (to port 53 in this example)
nping --udp [target host] -p 53 --data-length 100

# Send 500 TCP packets at a rate of 50 packets per second
nping --tcp [target host] --rate 50 -c 500

# To send an ARP request to a particular host
ping --arp [target host] 

# To send ARP requests to all hosts in the 192.168.1.0/24 network
nping --arp 192.168.1.0/24 

# To send an ICMP echo request
nping [target host] --icmp --icmp-type echo 

# To send an ICMP echo reply
nping google.com --icmp --icmp-type echo-reply

# To send a packet with a bad checksum from port 1221 to port 80
nping --udp --badsum --source-port 1221 -p 80 [target host]

# To toggle how verbose the output should be, simply append '-v ' followed by an integer between -4 (no output) and 4 (very verbose)

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