How To Install sing on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sing
on CentOS 7.
What is sing
Sing is a little tool that sends fully customized ICMP packets from command line. The main purpose is to replace/complement the nice ping command with certain enhancements as - Send fragmented and monster packets > 65534 bytes - Send/read spoofed packets - Send many ICMP Information types in addition to the echo request type, sent by default as address mask request, timestamp, information request, router solicitation and router advertisement - Send many ICMP error types exceeded, destination unreach and parameter problem - Send to host with loose or strict source routing - Use little fingerprinting techniques to discover Windows or Solaris boxes - Send ICMP packets emulating certain OS Shiva, Unix and Windows at the moment
We can use yum
or dnf
to install sing
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sing.
Install sing on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install sing
using yum
by running the following command:
Install sing on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install sing
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall sing on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the sing
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sing
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.