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{{Short description|Open-source packet generator and analyzer}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = hping
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| developer = [[Salvatore Sanfilippo]] (Antirez)
| latest_release_version = hping3-20051105
| latest_release_date = November 5, 2005
| platform = [[Command line interface|CLI]]
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]
| genre = [[Computer security]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License]] v2
| website = https://github.com/antirez/hping
}}
'''hping''' is an open-source [[packet generator]] and analyzer for the [[TCP/IP]] protocol created by [[Salvatore Sanfilippo]] (also known as Antirez).
It is one of the common tools used for security auditing and testing of [[firewall (computing)|firewall]]s and networks, and was used to exploit the [[idle scan]] scanning technique (also invented by the hping author), and now implemented in the [[Nmap|Nmap Security Scanner]]. The new version of hping, hping3, is scriptable using the [[Tcl]] language and implements an engine for string based, human-readable description of [[TCP/IP]] packets so that the programmer can write scripts related to low level [[TCP/IP]] packet manipulation and analysis in a short time.