Scapy

Scapy

Scapy is a Python library for parsing out wireless information. Imagine an API for your hardware, aircrack, nmap, tcpdump, traceroute, and various other networking utilities, all rolled into one Python library. That's Scapy.

References

Great intro to scapy's many functions: http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/demo.html

Great video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s4iyNSxs1k

Same setup, with a small battery-powered router: http://minipwner.com/index.php/forum/6-minipnwer-use/1787-my-experience-with-aircrack

Installing Scapy on Mac

Scapy has a number of dependencies on the Mac. One of them is dnet.

If you install dnet using pip, you get errors. If you install it from source, you don't.

Hat tip to this page: http://juhalaaksonen.com/blog/2013/12/11/installing-scapy-for-mac-os-x/

#!/bin/sh 

wget http://libdnet.googlecode.com/files/libdnet-1.12.tgz
tar xfz libdnet-1.12.tgz
cd libdnet-1.12
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd python
sudo python setup.py install