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Python Penetration Testing Essentials - Second Edition
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Python Penetration Testing Essentials - Second Edition

by Mohit Raj
May 2018
Beginner
230 pages
4h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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The concept of the Linux-based IP scanner

The concept behind the IP scanner is very simple. We will produce several threads to send ping packets to different IP addresses. One daemon thread would be responsible for capturing the response of those ping packets. In order to run the IP scanner, you need to install the ping module. You can download the .zip file of the ping module from here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ping. Just unzip or untar it, browse the folder, and run the following command:

python setup.py install

If you don't want to install the module, then just copy the ping.py file from the unzipped folder and paste it into the folder from which you are going to run the IP scanner code. 

Let's see the code, for ping_sweep_send_rec.py ...

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