How To Install firewalk on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install firewalk in Fedora 36. firewalk is Active reconnaissance network security tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install firewalk on Fedora 36.

What is `firewalk`

Firewalk is an active reconnaissance network security tool that attempts to determine what layer 4 protocols a given IP forwarding device will pass.

We can use yum or dnf to install firewalk on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firewalk.

Install firewalk on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install firewalk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install firewalk

Install firewalk on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install firewalk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install firewalk

How To Uninstall firewalk on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the firewalk package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove firewalk

firewalk Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/675b97814043f885485ee3970e7cad1ea723c9
/usr/sbin/firewalk
/usr/share/doc/firewalk
/usr/share/doc/firewalk/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/firewalk/README
/usr/share/doc/firewalk/SOURCE
/usr/share/doc/firewalk/TODO
/usr/share/man/man8/firewalk.8.gz

References

firewalk website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install firewalk on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).