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jwyllie83 committed Oct 19, 2014
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If you don't want to use root access to use it every time, you can setuid the
program. Keep in mind that any security vulnerabilities in tcpping could
allow someone to execute arbitrary root-level code.
allow someone to execute arbitrary root-level code, so do this at your own
risk.

sudo chown root:root tcpping
sudo chmod a+s tcpping
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libnet1 is a retooling of the old libnet hosted on SourceForge at
http://packetfactory.net/ by Peter Wang. The note from Sam at GitHub is that
the upstream maintainer is unresponsive and the project is unmaintained. He
made subtle changes to the API, but it should still mostly work with an old
version of libnet.
the upstream maintainer is unresponsive and the project is unmaintained. Older
versions of libnet based on Peter Wang's implementation will no longer work.
You can find Sam's implementation at https://github.com/sam-github/libnet

--- Related Tools -----------------------------------------------------------

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nmap
http://nmap.org/ -- Full-service security standard compiled as a package with
nearly all UNIX-like distributions.

mtr
http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ -- Traceroute combined with ping for full-route
loss statistics. Newer versions support TCP pings.

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