Host fingerprinting with hping [paper]

[naveed <naveedafzal () gmail com>]

This paper discusses some of the techniques that can be effectively
used in host fingerprinting. The paper will specially cover the cases
where network hosts are behind firewalls. We will explain the
techniques with various tools but the majority of the work is based on
a simple and powerful utility named hping. The OS fingerprinting is
reviwed in certain fire walled environments, also it has been tried to
analyze the methods in detail that brings us the advantages and
disadvantages of some techniques and the usage of hping as an auditing
tool.

The original paper can be found here

http://bsdpakistan.org/downloads/HostFingerprinting.pdf


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