Information about the package, unicornscan, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The unicornscan package is designed for, Scalable, accurate, flexible and efficient network probing.
Package Name:
unicornscan
Summary:
Scalable, accurate, flexible and efficient network probing
Description:
Unicornscan is an attempt at a user-land distributed TCP/IP stack. It is intended to provide a researcher a superior interface for introducing a stimulus into and measuring a response from a TCP/IP enabled device or network. Although it currently has hundreds of individual features, a main set of abilities include: Asynchronous stateless TCP scanning with all variations of TCP flags, asynchronous stateless TCP banner grabbing, asynchronous protocol specific UDP scanning (sending enough of a signature to elicit a response), active and passive remote OS, application and component identification by analyzing responses, PCAP file logging and filtering, relational database output, custom module support, customized data-set views.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.4.7
Release:
2.el6
Size:
550 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the unicornscan package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install unicornscan
This command will install unicornscan on the server.
yum remove unicornscan
This command will un-install unicornscan on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove unicornscan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove unicornscan
This command will un-install unicornscan on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove unicornscan when using the -y flag.
yum update unicornscan
This command will update unicornscan to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove unicornscan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update unicornscan
This command will update unicornscan to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove unicornscan when using the -y flag.
yum info unicornscan
This command will show you core information about the unicornscan package.
yum deplist unicornscan
This command will show you the dependencies for unicornscan. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update unicornscan
This command will check if there is an update waiting on unicornscan. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.