James Galvin

I spent many hours this week trying to port the python-based network tool Scapy to Windows. After a number of slow downloads, red herrings, and lot of messing around, I finally had the end in sight. Thats when some guy posted this with everything I needed. Thanks Andrew - nice one, just wish you had posted it three days earlier and I would have been able to watch an extra few World Cup games.

Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols, send them on the wire, capture them, match requests and replies, and much more. It can easily handle most classical tasks like scanning, tracerouting, probing, unit tests, attacks or network discovery (it can replace hping, 85% of nmap, arpspoof, arp-sk, arping, tcpdump, tethereal, p0f, etc.). It also performs very well at a lot of other specific tasks that most other tools can’t handle, like sending invalid frames, injecting your own 802.11 frames, combining technics (VLAN hopping+ARP cache poisoning, VOIP decoding on WEP encrypted channel, …

And in case you are wondering, I didn’t get clamped \o/

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