For the sake of whichever reason, I'll post the link to this article instead of pasting it:
http://security.linux.com/article.pl?si ... /08/135232
It's pretty interesting.
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You can test the security of your network in a number of ways. One is to hire your own hacker and see if he can get in. Another (and maybe more practical) way is to install hping. As the name suggests, hping is based on the ping utility, but the two applications are used in different ways.
You will have used ping to see if a device is accessible via a network, and even looked at the route between your computer and another one (by using the -R option). Ping uses<b>.....</b>
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