What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python?

Post by cookiemonster11 » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 1:50 PM UTC

kesor wrote: post #8

And there is no mention of ScaPy? http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/

Post by cookiemonster11 » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 1:51 PM UTC

kfnic wrote: post #9

Shouldn't the TCP handshake look like this: ---- SYN ----> ---- ACK ----> rather than having the client send two SYNs to the server?

Post by kernelwaste » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 1:52 PM UTC

Post by delluminatus » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 1:52 PM UTC

mholt wrote: post #4

ARP spoofing... clever. This was an amusing read and really informative, too. There is definitely something to be said for explaining lower-level concepts (e.g. TCP handshakes) using the common tongue. IMO, not a bad way to begin learning. Someone could perform the same experiment now and use Wireshark to see the raw packets, then draw conclusions to what is happening. Anyone know why the Python program is so slow? I…

Post by cookiemonster11 » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 1:54 PM UTC

prht wrote: post #13

cookiemonster11 wrote: post #5

This is not a TCP stack.

Indeed