How To Install hping3 on CentOS 8

hping3 is TCP/IP stack auditing and much more

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hping3 on CentOS 8.

What is hping3

hping3 is a network tool able to send custom TCP/IP packets and to display target replies like ping do with ICMP replies. hping3 can handle fragmentation, and almost arbitrary packet size and content, using the command line interface. Since version 3, hping implements scripting capabilties

We can use yum or dnf to install hping3 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hping3.

Install hping3 on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install hping3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hping3

Install hping3 on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install hping3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hping3

How To Uninstall hping3 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the hping3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove hping3

hping3 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/48488048d5d94b861c17585660469c504728dd
/usr/sbin/hping
/usr/sbin/hping2
/usr/sbin/hping3
/usr/share/doc/hping3
/usr/share/doc/hping3/AS-BACKDOOR
/usr/share/doc/hping3/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/hping3/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/hping3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/hping3/HPING2-HOWTO.txt
/usr/share/doc/hping3/HPING2-IS-OPEN
/usr/share/doc/hping3/HPING3.txt
/usr/share/doc/hping3/KNOWN-BUGS
/usr/share/doc/hping3/MORE-FUN-WITH-IPID
/usr/share/doc/hping3/README
/usr/share/doc/hping3/SPOOFED_SCAN.txt
/usr/share/doc/hping3/TODO
/usr/share/man/man8/hping3.8.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hping3 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.