In this recipe, we use the Scapy library to sniff packets and write to a file. All utility functions and definitions of Scapy can be imported using the wild card import, as shown in the following command:
from scapy.all import *
This is only for demonstration purposes and is not recommended for production code.
The sniff() function of Scapy takes the name of a callback function. Let's write a callback function that will write the packets onto a file.
Listing 8.2 gives the code for saving packets in the pcap format using the pcap dumper, as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env python # Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- Chapter - 8 # This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2. # It may run on any ...
