diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 40566f0..afe855d 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ make 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 @@ -57,9 +58,9 @@ sudo chmod a+s tcpping 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- @@ -72,3 +73,7 @@ many more features and is more complicated. 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.