Mastering Python for Networking and Security

Scapy advantages and disadvantages

Following are some of the advantages of Scapy:

• Supports multiple network protocols
• Its API provides the classes needed to capture packets across a network segment and execute a function each time a packet is captured
• It can be executed in the command interpreter mode or it can also be used from scripts in Python programmatically
• It allows us to manipulate network traffic at a very low level
• It allows us to use protocol stacks and combine them
• It allows us to configure all the parameters of each protocol

Also, Scapy has some weaknesses:

• Can't handle a large number of packets simultaneously
• Partial support for certain complex protocols