How To Install hunt on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install hunt in Fedora 36. hunt is Tool for demonstrating well known weaknesses in the TCP/IP protocol suite

Introduction

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

What is hunt

Hunt is a program for intruding into a connection, watching it and resetting it. It was inpired by products like Juggernaut or T-sight but has several features which can not be found in these products. Note that hunt is operating on Ethernet and is best used for connections which can be watched through it. However, it is possible to do something even for hosts on another segments. The hunt doesn’t distinguish between local network connections and connections going to/from Internet. It can handle all connections it sees. Connection hijacking is aimed primarily at the telnet traffic but it can be used for another traffic too. The reset, watching, arp… features are common to all connections.

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

Install hunt 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 hunt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hunt

Install hunt 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 hunt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hunt

How To Uninstall hunt on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove hunt

hunt Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/90f8f801494a0d1c6c213f06645d75737bfa98
/usr/lib64/hunt
/usr/lib64/hunt/transproxy
/usr/sbin/hunt
/usr/share/doc/hunt
/usr/share/doc/hunt/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/hunt/README
/usr/share/doc/hunt/README.tp
/usr/share/doc/hunt/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/hunt
/usr/share/licenses/hunt/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/hunt.1.gz

References

Summary

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