Mastering Python for Networking and Security

Scapy commands

Scapy provides us with many commands to investigate a network. We can use scapy in two ways: interactively within a terminal window or programmatically from a Python script by importing it as a library.

These are the commands that may be useful to show in detail the operation of scapy:

• ls(): Displays all the protocols supported by scapy
• lsc(): Displays the list of commands and functions supported by scapy
• conf: Displays all configuration options
• help(): Displays help on a specific command, for example, help(sniff)
• show(): Displays the details of a specific packet, for example, Newpacket.show()

Scapy supports about 300 network protocols. We can have an idea with the ls() command:

scapy>ls()

The screenshot shows an execution ...