How To Install firewalk on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firewalk
on Fedora 34.
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 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firewalk.
Install firewalk on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install firewalk
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install firewalk
Install firewalk on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 34
To uninstall only the firewalk
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove firewalk
firewalk Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/ada51a9242fe7992d1573534d51919c0c29c29
/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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firewalk
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.