Ping tool is commonly used for detecting whether a remote host is alive or not.
It makes use of ICMP protocal for detecting whether the remote host is alive or not.
Ping can also be missused to perform the following attacks.
1. Denial of service attack (DOS).
2. OS(Operating system) detection purposes.
Various tools for performing ping sweeping are
1. Cping
2. Fping
3. SuperScan
4. Ping Sweep
5. Nmap
6. WS_ping pro pack
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