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Python Network Programming
book

Python Network Programming

by Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
January 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
776 pages
19h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

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 other ...
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