I could not find any package for Hping3 in the repositories of OpenSuse (both official and non official). However, the source of Hping3 is available here and (almost) ready to be compiled. Almost ? let’s see why…
Category Archives: Network
SSH timout
After a fresh set up of your network, don’t be surprised that your ssh connections are slow.
Ethernet duplex issues
I had a weired issue with a server. Whereas other machines worked well with an high speed Internet connection, dowloading was painfully slow on this one. The network card, a 3Com, was also different from others (Intel).
SinFP, part II : comparison with Nmap 4.20
Here is the update of my previous test of SinFP.
I compared then the output of SinFP and Nmap on different machines, and found out that SinFP made a slightly better job than Nmap in OS detection, though it is not the primary goal of Nmap whereas it is the one of SinFP.
However, I made a mistake that the author of SinFP made me aware of.
I conducted the tests of Nmap using the package of my distribution, thinking it was the latest one.
Actually, it was only the version 4.10. Moreover, the current version, 4.20, brought up a new OS detection engine.
Therefore, a new test with version 4.20 was absolutely needed.
SinFP, part I : introduction and comparison with Nmap 4.10
Last week, I found out a very interesting program, SinFP (those who are french and read the Misc magazine must already know ;) ).
Its goal is to help you detecting what operating system a remote machine is running.
Well, you will tell me that we already have many programs that does this job, starting from the so famous nmap… but the approach is quite different this time.
OpenVPN and DNS on a linux client
I got a weired issue with Linux clients while it worked fine with Windows machines. For some reason, the /etc/resolv.conf did not get updated. I found out a workaround thanks to this page. Of course, your server configuration file must contain (if 192.168.1.1 is your DNS server):
push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.1"