Sniffing packets

Scapy has a sniff() function that we can use for getting packets from the network. But Scapy's built-in sniff() function is a bit slow and may skip some packets. It is better to use tcpdump when the sniffing speed is important.

How to do it...

Here are the steps to write a sniffer with scapy module:

1. Create a file called scapy-sniffer.py and open it with your editor.
2. As usual, import the required modules for the script:

import sys
from scapy.all import *  

3. Then, define the variables required. Here we need to define the interface to sniff:

interface = "en0"

You can get the interface to be used with the help of the ifconfig command in Linux and macOS:

4. Now we can write a function to handle...