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FRAGTEST
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NAME
fragtest - test IP fragment reassembly behaviour
SYNOPSIS
fragtest TESTS ... host
DESCRIPTION
fragtest
probes the remote
host
to determine its TCP/IP stack behaviour.
The
TESTS
may include any of the following (or may be specified as
all
to perform them all):
- ping
-
Send an ICMP echo request to the host.
- ip-opt
-
Send ICMP echo requests with different IP options, to see which IP
options are supported.
- frag
-
Send an ICMP echo request as 8-byte fragments.
- frag-new
-
Send an ICMP echo request as 8-byte fragments with an overlapping
16-byte fragment, favoring newer data in reassembly.
- frag-old
-
Send an ICMP echo request as 8-byte fragments with an overlapping
16-byte fragment, favoring older data in reassembly.
- frag-timeout
-
Send an ICMP echo request as 8-byte fragments, omitting the last
fragment, and wait for an ICMP time-exceeded-in-reassembly reply.
SEE ALSO
fragroute(8)
AUTHOR
Dug Song <dugsong@monkey.org>
BUGS
Firewalls or other filtering network devices may block IP fragments,
packets with IP options, ICMP echo traffic, etc.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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