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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788998512

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Build Automation

Author (1):

Aly

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Setting Up Our Python Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Common Libraries Used in Automation

3. Setting Up the Network Lab Environment

4. Using Python to Manage Network Devices

5. Extracting Useful Data from Network Devices

6. Configuration Generator with Python and Jinja2

7. Parallel Execution of Python Script

8. Preparing a Lab Environment

9. Using the Subprocess Module

10. Running System Administration Tasks with Fabric

11. Generating System Reports and System Monitoring

12. Interacting with the Database

13. Ansible for System Administration

14. Creating and Managing VMware Virtual Machines

15. Interacting with the OpenStack API

16. Automating AWS with Boto3

17. Using the Scapy Framework

18. Building a Network Scanner Using Python

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Installing Scapy

Scapy supports both Python 2.7.x and 3.4+, starting from Scapy version 2.x. However, for versions lower than 2.3.3, Scapy needs Python 2.5 and 2.7, or 3.4+ for versions after that. Since we already installed that latest Python version, it should be fine to run the latest version of Scapy without a problem.

Also, Scapy has an older version (1.x), which is deprecated and doesn't provide support for Python 3 and works only on Python 2.4.

Unix-based systems

To get the latest and greatest version, you need to use python pip:

pip install scapy

The output should look something like the following screenshot:

To verify that Scapy is installed successfully, access the Python console and try to import the scapy module into it. If no import error is reported back to the console then the installation completed successfully:

Some additional packages are required to visualize the conversation and to capture the packets. Use the following commands depending on your platform to install the additional...