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Code a network packet sniffer in python for Linux

By Silver Moon On Nov 29, 2011 15 Comments

Basic Sniffer

Sniffers are programs that can capture/sniff/detect network traffic packet by packet and analyse them for various reasons. Commonly used in the field of network security. Wireshark is a very common packet sniffer/protocol analyzer. Packet sniffers can be written in python too. In this article we are going to write a few very simple sniffers in python for the linux platform. Linux because, although python is a portable, the programs wont run or give similar results on windows for example. This is due to difference in the implementation of the socket api.

Sniffers shown here dont use any extra libraries like libpcap. They just use raw sockets. So lets start coding them

The most basic form of a sniffer would be

#Packet sniffer in python
#For Linux

import socket

#create an INET, raw socket
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_TCP)

# receive a packet
while True:
  print s.recvfrom(65565)

Run this with root privileges or sudo on ubuntu :

$ sudo python sniffer.py

The above sniffer works on the principle that a raw socket is capable of receiving all (of its type , like AF_INET) incoming traffic in Linux.

The output could look like this :

$ sudo python raw_socket.py 
("E \x00x\xcc\xfc\x00\x000\x06j%J}G\x13\xc0\xa8\x01\x06\x01\xbb\xa3\xdc\x0b\xbeI\xbf\x1aF[\x83P\x18\xff\xff\x88\xf6\x00\x00\x17\x03\x01\x00\x1c\xbbT\xb3\x07}\xb0\xedqE\x1e\xe7;-\x03\x9bU\xb7\xb1r\xd2\x9e]\xa1\xb8\xac\xa4V\x9a\x17\x03\x01\x00*\xed\x1f\xda\xa4##Qe\x9a\xe9\xd6\xadN\xf4\x9b\xc4\xf0C'\x01\xc4\x82\xdb\xb2\x8d(\xa5\xd0\x06\x95\x13WO\x0f\x8e\x1c\xa6f\x1d\xdf\xe1x", ('74.125.71.19', 0))
('E \x00I\xcc\xfd\x00\x000\x06jSJ}G\x13\xc0\xa8\x01\x06\x01\xbb\xa3\xdc\x0b\xbeJ\x0f\x1aF[\x83P\x18\xff\xff:\x11\x00\x00\x17\x03\x01\x00\x1c\xaa];\t\x81yi\xbbC\xb5\x11\x14(Ct\x13\x10wt\xe0\xbam\xa9\x88/\xf8O{', ('74.125.71.19', 0))
('E \x00(\xcc\xfe\x00\x000\x06jsJ}G\x13\xc0\xa8\x01\x06\x01\xbb\xa3\xdc\x0b\xbeJ0\x1aFa\x19P\x10\xff\xff\xe5\xb0\x00\x00', ('74.125.71.19', 0))
('E \x00(\xcc\xff\x00\x000\x06jrJ}G\x13\xc0\xa8\x01\x06\x01\xbb\xa3\xdc\x0b\xbeJ0\x1aFbtP\x10\xff\xff\xe4U\x00\x00', ('74.125.71.19', 0))

The above is a dump of the network packets in hex. They can be parsed using the unpack function.

Parsing the sniffed packet

Here is the code sniff and parse a TCP packet


#Packet sniffer in python for Linux
#Sniffs only incoming TCP packet

import socket, sys
from struct import *

#create an INET, STREAMing socket
try:
	s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_TCP)
except socket.error , msg:
	print 'Socket could not be created. Error Code : ' + str(msg[0]) + ' Message ' + msg[1]
	sys.exit()

# receive a packet
while True:
	packet = s.recvfrom(65565)
	
	#packet string from tuple
	packet = packet[0]
	
	#take first 20 characters for the ip header
	ip_header = packet[0:20]
	
	#now unpack them :)
	iph = unpack('!BBHHHBBH4s4s' , ip_header)
	
	version_ihl = iph[0]
	version = version_ihl >> 4
	ihl = version_ihl & 0xF
	
	iph_length = ihl * 4
	
	ttl = iph[5]
	protocol = iph[6]
	s_addr = socket.inet_ntoa(iph[8]);
	d_addr = socket.inet_ntoa(iph[9]);
	
	print 'Version : ' + str(version) + ' IP Header Length : ' + str(ihl) + ' TTL : ' + str(ttl) + ' Protocol : ' + str(protocol) + ' Source Address : ' + str(s_addr) + ' Destination Address : ' + str(d_addr)
	
	tcp_header = packet[iph_length:iph_length+20]
	
	#now unpack them :)
	tcph = unpack('!HHLLBBHHH' , tcp_header)
	
	source_port = tcph[0]
	dest_port = tcph[1]
	sequence = tcph[2]
	acknowledgement = tcph[3]
	doff_reserved = tcph[4]
	tcph_length = doff_reserved >> 4
	
	print 'Source Port : ' + str(source_port) + ' Dest Port : ' + str(dest_port) + ' Sequence Number : ' + str(sequence) + ' Acknowledgement : ' + str(acknowledgement) + ' TCP header length : ' + str(tcph_length)
	
	h_size = iph_length + tcph_length * 4
	data_size = len(packet) - h_size
	
	#get data from the packet
	data = packet[h_size:]
	
	print 'Data : ' + data
	print

The above code breaks down the packet into IP Header + TCP Header + Data.
The unpack function is used to break down the packet. Documentation

The output of the code should look like this :

$ sudo python tcp_sniffer.py 
Version : 4 IP Header Length : 5 TTL : 56 Protocol : 6 Source Address : 74.125.236.85 Destination Address : 192.168.1.101
Source Port : 443 Dest Port : 38461 Sequence Number : 2809673723 Acknowledgement : 3312567259 TCP header length : 5
Data : 2X???@???0? 
                   ???k?/&???=?5Hz??>5QBp0?O???Z???$??

Version : 4 IP Header Length : 5 TTL : 56 Protocol : 6 Source Address : 74.125.236.85 Destination Address : 192.168.1.101
Source Port : 443 Dest Port : 38461 Sequence Number : 2809673778 Acknowledgement : 3312567259 TCP header length : 5
Data : ?
??j?!I??*??*??Z???;?L?]Y-

Version : 4 IP Header Length : 5 TTL : 52 Protocol : 6 Source Address : 173.192.42.183 Destination Address : 192.168.1.101
Source Port : 80 Dest Port : 52813 Sequence Number : 1202422309 Acknowledgement : 3492657980 TCP header length : 5
Data : HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway
Server: nginx
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:56:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 568
Connection: close

<html>
<head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>502 Bad Gateway</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
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Version : 4 IP Header Length : 5 TTL : 56 Protocol : 6 Source Address : 74.125.236.85 Destination Address : 192.168.1.101
Source Port : 443 Dest Port : 38461 Sequence Number : 2809673811 Acknowledgement : 3312568679 TCP header length : 5
Data :

According to RFC 791 an IP header looks like this :


0                   1                   2                   3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|Version|  IHL  |Type of Service|          Total Length         |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|         Identification        |Flags|      Fragment Offset    |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|  Time to Live |    Protocol   |         Header Checksum       |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                       Source Address                          |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                    Destination Address                        |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                    Options                    |    Padding    |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

If the IHL is 5 then total size is 20 bytes hence options+padding is absent.
For TCP packets the protocol is 6. Source address is the source IPv4 address in long format.

Next comes the TCP header :

0                   1                   2                   3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|          Source Port          |       Destination Port        |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                        Sequence Number                        |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                    Acknowledgment Number                      |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|  Data |           |U|A|P|R|S|F|                               |
| Offset| Reserved  |R|C|S|S|Y|I|            Window             |
|       |           |G|K|H|T|N|N|                               |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|           Checksum            |         Urgent Pointer        |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                    Options                    |    Padding    |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             data                              |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

and the balance after the TCP header is the data portion.

The C version of the code is here.
The Php version of the code is here.

Note :

1. The above sniffer picks up only TCP packets, because of the declaration :

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_TCP)

For UDP and ICMP the declaration has to be :

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_UDP)
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_ICMP)

You might be tempted to think of doing :

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_IP)

but this will not work , since IPPROTO_IP is a dummy protocol not a real one.

2. This sniffer picks up only incoming packets.

3. This sniffer delivers only IP frames , which means ethernet headers are not available.

Sniff all data with ethernet header

Now let us see how we can overcome the above mentioned drawbacks. The solutions is quite simple.

This line :

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_TCP)

needs to be changed to :

s = socket.socket( socket.AF_PACKET , socket.SOCK_RAW , socket.ntohs(0x0003))

Now the same socket will receive :

1. All incoming and outgoing traffic.

2. All Ethernet frames , which means all kinds of IP packets(TCP , UDP , ICMP) and even other kinds of packets(like ARP) if there are any.

3. It will also provide the ethernet header as a part of the received packet.

Here is the source code :


#Packet sniffer in python
#For Linux - Sniffs all incoming and outgoing packets :)
#Silver Moon (m00n.silv3r@gmail.com)

import socket, sys
from struct import *

#Convert a string of 6 characters of ethernet address into a dash separated hex string
def eth_addr (a) :
  b = "%.2x:%.2x:%.2x:%.2x:%.2x:%.2x" % (ord(a[0]) , ord(a[1]) , ord(a[2]), ord(a[3]), ord(a[4]) , ord(a[5]))
  return b

#create a AF_PACKET type raw socket (thats basically packet level)
#define ETH_P_ALL    0x0003          /* Every packet (be careful!!!) */
try:
	s = socket.socket( socket.AF_PACKET , socket.SOCK_RAW , socket.ntohs(0x0003))
except socket.error , msg:
	print 'Socket could not be created. Error Code : ' + str(msg[0]) + ' Message ' + msg[1]
	sys.exit()

# receive a packet
while True:
	packet = s.recvfrom(65565)
	
	#packet string from tuple
	packet = packet[0]
	
	#parse ethernet header
	eth_length = 14
	
	eth_header = packet[:eth_length]
	eth = unpack('!6s6sH' , eth_header)
	eth_protocol = socket.ntohs(eth[2])
	print 'Destination MAC : ' + eth_addr(packet[0:6]) + ' Source MAC : ' + eth_addr(packet[6:12]) + ' Protocol : ' + str(eth_protocol)

	#Parse IP packets, IP Protocol number = 8
	if eth_protocol == 8 :
		#Parse IP header
		#take first 20 characters for the ip header
		ip_header = packet[eth_length:20+eth_length]
		
		#now unpack them :)
		iph = unpack('!BBHHHBBH4s4s' , ip_header)

		version_ihl = iph[0]
		version = version_ihl >> 4
		ihl = version_ihl & 0xF

		iph_length = ihl * 4

		ttl = iph[5]
		protocol = iph[6]
		s_addr = socket.inet_ntoa(iph[8]);
		d_addr = socket.inet_ntoa(iph[9]);

		print 'Version : ' + str(version) + ' IP Header Length : ' + str(ihl) + ' TTL : ' + str(ttl) + ' Protocol : ' + str(protocol) + ' Source Address : ' + str(s_addr) + ' Destination Address : ' + str(d_addr)

		#TCP protocol
		if protocol == 6 :
			t = iph_length + eth_length
			tcp_header = packet[t:t+20]

			#now unpack them :)
			tcph = unpack('!HHLLBBHHH' , tcp_header)
			
			source_port = tcph[0]
			dest_port = tcph[1]
			sequence = tcph[2]
			acknowledgement = tcph[3]
			doff_reserved = tcph[4]
			tcph_length = doff_reserved >> 4
			
			print 'Source Port : ' + str(source_port) + ' Dest Port : ' + str(dest_port) + ' Sequence Number : ' + str(sequence) + ' Acknowledgement : ' + str(acknowledgement) + ' TCP header length : ' + str(tcph_length)
			
			h_size = eth_length + iph_length + tcph_length * 4
			data_size = len(packet) - h_size
			
			#get data from the packet
			data = packet[h_size:]
			
			print 'Data : ' + data

		#ICMP Packets
		elif protocol == 1 :
			u = iph_length + eth_length
			icmph_length = 4
			icmp_header = packet[u:u+4]

			#now unpack them :)
			icmph = unpack('!BBH' , icmp_header)
			
			icmp_type = icmph[0]
			code = icmph[1]
			checksum = icmph[2]
			
			print 'Type : ' + str(icmp_type) + ' Code : ' + str(code) + ' Checksum : ' + str(checksum)
			
			h_size = eth_length + iph_length + icmph_length
			data_size = len(packet) - h_size
			
			#get data from the packet
			data = packet[h_size:]
			
			print 'Data : ' + data

		#UDP packets
		elif protocol == 17 :
			u = iph_length + eth_length
			udph_length = 8
			udp_header = packet[u:u+8]

			#now unpack them :)
			udph = unpack('!HHHH' , udp_header)
			
			source_port = udph[0]
			dest_port = udph[1]
			length = udph[2]
			checksum = udph[3]
			
			print 'Source Port : ' + str(source_port) + ' Dest Port : ' + str(dest_port) + ' Length : ' + str(length) + ' Checksum : ' + str(checksum)
			
			h_size = eth_length + iph_length + udph_length
			data_size = len(packet) - h_size
			
			#get data from the packet
			data = packet[h_size:]
			
			print 'Data : ' + data

		#some other IP packet like IGMP
		else :
			print 'Protocol other than TCP/UDP/ICMP'
			
		print

The above program must be run with root privileges.

The output should be something like this :

Destination MAC : 00-1c-c0-f8-79-ee Source MAC : 00-25-5e-1a-3d-f1 Protocol : 8
Version : 4 IP Header Length : 5 TTL : 57 Protocol : 6 Source Address : 64.131.72.23 Destination Address : 192.168.1.6
Source Port : 80 Dest Port : 58928 Sequence Number : 1392138007 Acknowledgement : 2935013912 TCP header length : 6
Data : ??y?%^?=E ,@9?c@?H?P?0R?W????`?5t?

Destination MAC : 00-25-5e-1a-3d-f1 Source MAC : 00-1c-c0-f8-79-ee Protocol : 8
Version : 4 IP Header Length : 5 TTL : 64 Protocol : 6 Source Address : 192.168.1.6 Destination Address : 64.131.72.23
Source Port : 58928 Dest Port : 80 Sequence Number : 2935013912 Acknowledgement : 1392138008 TCP header length : 5
Data : %^?=???yE(mU@@?2?@?H?0P????R?W?PJc

Destination MAC : 00-1c-c0-f8-79-ee Source MAC : 00-25-5e-1a-3d-f1 Protocol : 8
Version : 4 IP Header Length : 5 TTL : 55 Protocol : 17 Source Address : 78.141.179.8 Destination Address : 192.168.1.6
Source Port : 34049 Dest Port : 56295 Length : 28 Checksum : 25749
Data : @7?YN?????d??????r'?y@?f?h`??

Destination MAC : 00-1c-c0-f8-79-ee Source MAC : 00-25-5e-1a-3d-f1 Protocol : 8
Version : 4 IP Header Length : 5 TTL : 118 Protocol : 17 Source Address : 173.181.21.51 Destination Address : 192.168.1.6
Source Port : 5999 Dest Port : 56295 Length : 26 Checksum : 22170
Data : s)vL??3?o???V?Z???cw?k??pIQ

It parses the Ethernet header and also the UDP and ICMP headers.

Ethernet header looks like this :

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|       Ethernet destination address (first 32 bits)            |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Ethernet dest (last 16 bits)  |Ethernet source (first 16 bits)|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|       Ethernet source address (last 32 bits)                  |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|        Type code              |                               |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

UDP Header according to RFC 768 :

0      7 8     15 16    23 24    31  
 +--------+--------+--------+--------+ 
 |     Source      |   Destination   | 
 |      Port       |      Port       | 
 +--------+--------+--------+--------+ 
 |                 |                 | 
 |     Length      |    Checksum     | 
 +--------+--------+--------+--------+ 
 |                                     
 |          data octets ...            
 +---------------- ...

ICMP Header according to RFC 792 :

0                   1                   2                   3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|     Type      |     Code      |          Checksum             |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             unused                            |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|      Internet Header + 64 bits of Original Data Datagram      |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

This kind of a sniffer does not depend on any external libraries like libpcap.

The C version of this code is here.

Resources

1. http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html

Last Updated On : 15th December 2012

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  • tejas

    Why am I getting only UDP packets from other IPs in the network? Why am I not getting TCP packets from others?

    • http://www.binarytides.com/ Silver Moon

      what is the type of socket you are creating ?

      the following socket will fetch only incoming udp packets.
      s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_UDP);

      the following socket will fetch all incoming and outgoing packets as raw ethernet frames.
      s = socket.socket( socket.AF_PACKET , socket.SOCK_RAW , socket.ntohs(0×0003));

  • David Luu

    Helpful post. What would you recommend if we’d want to sniff outgoing packets too? Maybe need to run sniffer on a machine that’s set as a router/proxy where the endpoints of interest (to sniff) pass data through?

    • http://www.binarytides.com/ Silver Moon

      use the 2nd sniffer that sniffs both incoming and outgoing data along with ethernet headers

      s = socket.socket( socket.AF_PACKET , socket.SOCK_RAW , socket.ntohs(0×0003))

  • kapil

    hehehhe…. man wats d need 2 write such a huge code… u cud hav implemented d same thing in hardly 20-30 lines of code using the SCAPY module in python…. :)

  • http://www.jijokjose.com jijokjose

    Thanks for the script. I run this sniffer script and it works perfectly but the data portion is not much formatted. Some unreadable chacters are displaying. Like the following

    Data : 6\FC\81\800000pagead2googlesyndicationcom000\C0 00000c0pagead46l doubleclicknet0\C0;00000f0J}\EB-

    Is there is any way to convert this to unreadable content into readable text ..??

    • Silver Moon

      unreadable characters mean they dont have any representable ascii character.
      so they just display as codes.

  • Mark

    Great script thanks. Is there a way to taylor it to only sniff on a particular port?

    • Silver Moon

      its not possible directly, instead the port of all tcp/udp packets need to be checked and the particular packet has to be picked out.

  • anon

    @Jamie thx for your hint.
    @Silver Moon great work works on win7 (as admin) to when I use socket.IPPROTO_IP instand of socket.IPPROTO_TCP

    for hexdump output:
    http://code.activestate.com/recipes/142812/

    so kindest regards you two made my day :-D

  • ain

    hi sir..
    it this source code available when running on window,
    for your information, i want to create a packet sniffer program using python on windows platfrom..
    and the worse thing is, i’m the beginner on python.

    i’ve tried ur better sniffer code but it keep give me this error.

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “C:\Python26\New folder\sniff.py”, line 6, in
    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_PACKET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.ntohs(0×0003))
    AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘AF_PACKET’

    and i’m stuck. i don’t know what the solution..
    pls help me out :(

    • http://www.binarytides.com/ Silver Moon

      this code is only for Linux/Unix or similar operating systems.
      It will not work on windows , since windows has very limited raw socket support.

      You can check this page :
      http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html

      It has “network sniffer with raw sockets on Windows” towards the bottom.

      However first brush up your python skills.

  • Jamie

    Thanks for this script. I was looking for something to use in black box testing. I am doing some work testing an embedded linux system which has python but we don’t have a compiler to build stuff like tcpdump that isn’t installed

    In the last, improved script there is a typo/slip at line 121, it should be

    data=packet[h_size:]

    Keep up the good work

    • Mark

      I agree. All data parsing lines seem to be:

      data = packet[data_size:]

      Shouldn’t they all be:

      data=packet[h_size:]

      ?

      Mark

      • Silver Moon

        yes, it should be
        data=packet[h_size:]