Connect scanning with Scapy

Let's perform the following steps to run the connect scan with Scapy:

  1. It can be difficult to run a full connect scan with Scapy because the system kernel remains unaware of your packet meddling with Scapy and attempts to prevent you from establishing a full three-way handshake with the remote system.
  2. You can see this activity in action by sending a SYN request and sniffing the associated traffic with Wireshark or TCP dump.
  3. When you receive a SYN+ACK response from the remote system, the Linux kernel will interpret it as an unsolicited response because it remains unaware of your request made in Scapy, and the system will automatically respond with a TCP RST packet, thereby discontinuing the handshake process. Consider ...

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