Sockets: IPPROTO_IP not supported
Joseph L. Casale
jcasale at activenetwerx.com
Mon Jan 16 05:17:06 EST 2017
> Trying to sniff Ethernet packets, I do this:
>
> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_IP)
>
> but it results in this:
>
> $ sudo python3 sniff_survey.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "sniff_survey.py", line 118, in <module>
> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_IP)
> File "/usr/lib/python3.2/socket.py", line 94, in __init__
> _socket.socket.__init__(self, family, type, proto, fileno)
> socket.error: [Errno 93] Protocol not supported
>
> Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? (Python 3.2.3 under Debian 3.2.84-1.)
Have a look at the bottom of this SO question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5385312/ipproto-ip-vs-ipproto-tcp-ipproto-udp
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