If you have EPEL repo setup, you can install with yum. Hping is available as RPM in the EPEL repository. Below are the things you can do using hping: Hping was mainly used as a security tool in the past, but now can be used in many ways to test networks and hosts.
The tool runs on all major operating systems including Linux, *BSD, and Windows. Hping is often considered a complementary tool to Nmap.
As the name suggest, hping isn’t only able to send ICMP echo requests, but supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols, has a traceroute mode, the ability to send files between a covered channel and many other features. Inspired by the ping command, Hping was developed by Antirez in 1998. Hping is a command line TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer with embedded Tcl scripting functionality.
