Package: sing (1.1-16) [universe]

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Maintainer:

Ubuntu MOTU Developers (Mail Archive)

Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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A fully programmable ping replacement

Sing is a little tool that sends ICMP packets fully customized from command line. The main purpose is to replace/complement the nice ping command with certain enhancements as:

 - Send fragmented packets (Linux and BSD).
 - Send monster packets > 65534 (Linux and BSD).
 - Send/read spoofed packets.(Libpcap included in distribution).
 - 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.

Other Packages Related to sing

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dep: debconf

Debian configuration management system

or debconf-2.0

virtual package provided by cdebconf, cdebconf-udeb, debconf
dep: libc6 (>= 2.7-1)

GNU C Library: Shared libraries
also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
dep: libnet0

library for the construction and handling of network packets (obsolete)
dep: libpcap0.8 (>= 0.9.3-1)

System interface for user-level packet capture

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Architecture	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
amd64	49.3 kB	168 kB	[list of files]
i386	46.4 kB	156 kB	[list of files]

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