Fedora 9 Update: sing-1.1-1.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-3926
2009-04-27 20:37:26
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Name        : sing
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 1.1
Release     : 1.fc9
URL         : http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/sing/
Summary     : Sends fully customized ICMP packets from command line
Description :
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: redirect, source quench, time 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: Cisco, Solaris, Linux, Shiva,
   Unix and Windows at the moment

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Update Information:

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: redirect, source quench, time 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: Cisco, Solaris, Linux, Shiva, Unix and
Windows at the moment
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update sing' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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