Scapy as an Nmap replacement
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Description
Scapy team,
I'm Marius from the SUSE team. We are evaluating Scapy as our primary Nmap replacement for future SLES versions.
Our main hurdle is the "Sysadmin UX"—most users need a "point-and-shoot" CLI rather than a Python REPL.
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Are there plans for a standard CLI (e.g., scapy-cli --scan <target>)? -
If not, would you be open to a contribution for a "friendly" wrapper that maps common Nmap-like tasks to Scapy functions?
We'd love to help make Scapy the standard tool for admins who aren't Python experts.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files or tests. Start by reviewing Scapy's Python REPL and the proposed scapy-cli --scan <target> interface, then define which common Nmap-like tasks the wrapper would cover. Done requires an agreed CLI scope and a clear contribution plan.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli, networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100