Scapy is not able to sniff packets at my network interface.

[Alinaahmad]

I'm using Scapy, on WSL. I checked for my network interface which is "wifi0". Using scapy I am trying to implement a packet sniffer.

import scapy.all as scapy
from scapy.layers import http
def sniff(interface):
8. scapy.sniff(iface=interface, store=False, prn=process_sniffed_packet)

def process_sniffed_packet(packet):
if packet.haslayer(http.HTTPRequest):

    #Extracting useful URLs
    url = packet[http.HTTPRequest].Host + packet[http.HTTPRequest].Path
    print("[+] HTTP Request >>" + URL)

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27. sniff("wifi0")

Executing this throws an error, as under.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Packet_Sniffer.py", line 27, in
sniff("wifi0")
File "Packet_Sniffer.py", line 8, in sniff
scapy.sniff(iface=interface, store=False, prn=process_sniffed_packet)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/scapy/sendrecv.py", line 972, in sniff
sniffer._run(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/scapy/sendrecv.py", line 841, in _run
sniff_sockets[L2socket(type=ETH_P_ALL, iface=iface,
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/scapy/arch/linux.py", line 467, in init
self.ins = socket.socket(socket.AF_PACKET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.htons(type)) # noqa: E501
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/socket.py", line 231, in init
_socket.socket.init(self, family, type, proto, fileno)
OSError: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol

[therealkenc]

self.ins = socket.socket(socket.AF_PACKET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.htons(type)) # noqa: E501
OSError: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol

/dupe #717 #1349 et al.

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists in this repository. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread.

Thanks for your report!

[omarakl]

If you are using kali Linux and installing it on a virtual machine then you need to buy a wifi adapter. Or you should install the kali linux on your real machine. Also remove the iface argument from sniff function.

That worked for me

Good luck :)