{"id":720,"date":"2007-12-18T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2007\/12\/pcapy-python-interface-to-libpcap\/"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:39:44","slug":"pcapy-python-interface-to-libpcap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2007\/12\/pcapy-python-interface-to-libpcap\/","title":{"rendered":"Pcapy &#8211; Python Interface to LibPcap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>Pcapy is a Python extension module that interfaces with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpdump.org\/\">libpcap packet capture library<\/a>. Pcapy enables python scripts to capture packets on the network. Pcapy is highly effective when used in conjunction with a packet-handling package such as <a href=\"http:\/\/oss.coresecurity.com\/projects\/impacket.html\">Impacket<\/a>, which is a collection of Python classes for constructing and dissecting network packets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advantages of Pcapy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Works with Python threads.<\/li>\n<li>Functions in both UNIX with libpcap and Windows with WinPcap.<\/li>\n<li>Provides a simpler Object Oriented API.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Python interpreter. Versions 2.1.3 and higher.<\/li>\n<li>A C++ compiler. GCC G++ 2.95, as well as Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 or MSVC 2003 depending on the Python version.<\/li>\n<li>A Libpcap 0.9.3 or newer. Windows users should have installed WinPcap 4.0 or newer. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download Pcapy here:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source code<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Latest stable release (0.10.5) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/oss.coresecurity.com\/repo\/pcapy-0.10.5.tar.gz\">gzip&#8217;d tarball<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/oss.coresecurity.com\/repo\/pcapy-0.10.5.zip\">zip file<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Win32 binaries<\/strong> &#8211; Pick the appropriate Python or WinPcap version.<\/p>\n<p>Latest release (0.10.5) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/oss.coresecurity.com\/repo\/pcapy-0.10.5.win32-py2.5.exe\">Windows installer<\/a> \u2013 Python 2.5 and WinPcap 4.0.<br \/>\n0.10.4 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/oss.coresecurity.com\/repo\/pcapy-0.10.4.win32-py2.4.exe\">Windows installer<\/a> \u2013 Python 2.4 and WinPcap 3.1.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#New468--><\/p>\n<p>Or read more <a href=\"http:\/\/oss.coresecurity.com\/projects\/pcapy.html\">here<\/a> and the documentation is <a href=\"http:\/\/oss.coresecurity.com\/pcapy\/doc\/pt01.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad] Pcapy is a Python extension module that interfaces with the libpcap packet capture library. Pcapy enables python scripts to capture packets on the network. Pcapy is highly effective when used in conjunction with a packet-handling package such as Impacket, which is a collection of Python classes for constructing and dissecting network packets. Advantages of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[812,8858,215,1932,8873,284],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darknet","author_link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/author\/darknet\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}