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Alternative to ICMP echo requests #14

Closed vanhoefm closed 3 years ago

vanhoefm commented 3 years ago

Question received by mail: "As I understood your tool uses PING and ICMP_ECHO_REQUEST as test. What if tested device blocks passing ICMP_ECHO_REPLY packets out? Is there any way to modify your python script fragattack.py to use other tool, for example, traceroute. I tested it and for my device traceroute -I IP (-I for using ICMP ECHO instead of UDP dataframes) works. The device has Linux-like OS without sudo rights, so i can not disable restriction for PING responses."

vanhoefm commented 3 years ago

The README describes alternatives to ICMP ping requests. The main alternative currently is using ARP requests. Using ARP requests has not been that extensively tested as using ICMP requests, so I still recommend using ICMP ping requests when possible.