TCP Traceroute in python
Is scapy traceroute function really does TCP traceroute?
Yes it does do TCP traceroute (among other things). Take a look at Scapy source-code:
@conf.commands.register def traceroute(target, dport=80, minttl=1, maxttl=30, sport=RandShort(), l4 = None, filter=None, timeout=2, verbose=None, **kargs): """Instant TCP traceroute traceroute(target, [maxttl=30,] [dport=80,] [sport=80,] [verbose=conf.verb]) -> None""" if verbose is None: verbose = conf.verb if filter is None: # we only consider ICMP error packets and TCP packets with at # least the ACK flag set *and* either the SYN or the RST flag # set filter="(icmp and (icmp[0]=3 or icmp[0]=4 or icmp[0]=5 or icmp[0]=11 or icmp[0]=12)) or (tcp and (tcp[13] & 0x16 > 0x10))" if l4 is None: a,b = sr(IP(dst=target, id=RandShort(), ttl=(minttl,maxttl))/TCP(seq=RandInt(),sport=sport, dport=dport), timeout=timeout, filter=filter, verbose=verbose, **kargs) else: # this should always work filter="ip" a,b = sr(IP(dst=target, id=RandShort(), ttl=(minttl,maxttl))/l4, timeout=timeout, filter=filter, verbose=verbose, **kargs) a = TracerouteResult(a.res) if verbose: a.show() return a,b
I want to perform
tcp traceroute for both ipv6 and ipv4Again looking at
Scapy source code, traceroot6 can do the job:
def traceroute6(target, dport=80, minttl=1, maxttl=30, sport=RandShort(), l4 = None, timeout=2, verbose=None, **kargs): """ Instant TCP traceroute using IPv6 : traceroute6(target, [maxttl=30], [dport=80], [sport=80]) -> None """ if verbose is None: verbose = conf.verb if l4 is None: a,b = sr(IPv6(dst=target, hlim=(minttl,maxttl))/TCP(seq=RandInt(),sport=sport, dport=dport), timeout=timeout, filter="icmp6 or tcp", verbose=verbose, **kargs) else: a,b = sr(IPv6(dst=target, hlim=(minttl,maxttl))/l4, timeout=timeout, verbose=verbose, **kargs) a = TracerouteResult6(a.res) if verbose: a.display() return a,b
Example code for traceroute ipv6:
from scapy.all import * waypoint = "2001:301:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085" target = "2001:5f9:4:7:2e0:81ff:fe52:9a6b" traceroute6(waypoint, minttl=10, maxttl=40, l4=IPv6ExtHdrRouting(addresses=[target])/ICMPv6EchoRequest(data=RandString(7)))
I am not sure why same IP addresses are shown for all the hops.
Using a DNS traceroute by specifying a complete packet in the l4 parameter of traceroute() function you don't get same IP addresses for all the hops.
from scapy.all import * target = ["172.217.17.46"] result, unans = traceroute(target, l4=UDP(sport=RandShort())/DNS(qd=DNSQR(qname="www.google.com")))
Or you can use TCP SYN traceroute to obtain similar results:
from scapy.all import * target = ["172.217.17.46"] result, unans = sr(IP(dst=target, ttl=(1, 10)) / TCP(dport=53, flags="S")) for snd, rcv in result: print(snd.ttl, rcv.src, snd.sent_time, rcv.time)
Or you can create IP and UDP packets to implement traceroute using Scapy like this:
from scapy.all import * hostname = "172.217.17.46" for i in range(1, 28): pkt = IP(dst=hostname, ttl=i) / UDP(dport=33434) reply = sr1(pkt, verbose=0) if reply is None: break elif reply.type == 3: print("Done!", reply.src) break else: print("%d hops away: " % i, reply.src, reply.time)
Is there any other library which I can use if
Scapy is not suitable?- Check out webb. I haven't use it, but you can use it like this:
import webb webb.traceroute("www.google.com") webb.traceroute("www.google.com",'file-name.txt')
Also, check out this
tcptracerouteby Thomas Guettler.Or this Multi-source traceroute with geolocation implementation by Addy Yeow (Ayeowch).
Among other things, using-jparameter (JSON_FILE), it will list sources in JSON file format.Or this implementation by Christian Kreibich. It can parse traceroute info into a series of hop objects, each consisting of one or more probe results, likewise, object instances. Also, string formatting produces familiar traceroute output.
(In order to work withPython 3one needs to changecStringIOtofrom io import StringIO
Without scapy (using windows console):
Create a script named
output.pycontaining the following:
import sys
from subprocess import Popen
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print('Usage: output.py "command to watch"')
sys.exit(1)
cmd_line = sys.argv[1:]
p = Popen(cmd_line)
p.communicate()[0]
Example usage: python output.py ping google.com
Example output for
ping:Pinging google.com [216.58.209.14] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 216.58.209.14: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=56 Reply from 216.58.209.14: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=56 Reply from 216.58.209.14: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=56 Reply from 216.58.209.14: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=56 Ping statistics for 216.58.209.14: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 45ms, Maximum = 50ms, Average = 46ms
Example usage: python output.py tracert google.com
Example output for
tracert:Tracing route to google.com [172.217.18.174] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 6 ms 8 ms 8 ms xx.xx.xx.xx 3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms [xx.xx.xxx.xxx] 4 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms be3549.ccr31.sof02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.59.138] 5 18 ms 17 ms 20 ms be3421.ccr51.beg03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.94] 6 32 ms 31 ms 30 ms be3464.ccr52.vie01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.59.189] 7 39 ms 37 ms 44 ms be3462.ccr22.muc03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.59.182] 8 42 ms 48 ms 44 ms be2960.ccr42.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.36.253] 9 44 ms 50 ms 50 ms be3187.agr41.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.117] 10 43 ms 45 ms 46 ms tata.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.15.86] 11 45 ms 45 ms 44 ms 72.14.196.162 12 43 ms 41 ms 46 ms 108.170.251.129 13 46 ms 46 ms 45 ms 74.125.37.167 14 45 ms 52 ms 48 ms fra15s29-in-f14.1e100.net [172.217.18.174]
You can use tracert -d if you don't want names to be resolved.
For
OSX and Linux and with Python 2.7 you can use this parser.
Hussain ali
Updated on June 20, 2022Comments
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Hussain ali almost 2 years
I am writing a python script to perform 'TCP Traceroute'. I learned scapy is a useful library to do this but I`m not getting the results I need. Can anyone help me resolve this? I want the python script to generate similar results as command line.
I am using linux, python 2.7 with scapy 2.4. I am not sure why same ip addresses are shown for all the hops.
from scapy.layers.inet import traceroute result, unans = traceroute('172.217.17.46', maxttl=30) for snd, rcv in result: print snd.ttl, rcv.src, snd.sent_time, rcv.timeWhen I run this code I get following results:
1 10.0.2.2 1541113255.58 1541113255.6 2 172.217.17.46 1541113255.58 1541113255.72 3 172.217.17.46 1541113255.58 1541113255.72 4 172.217.17.46 1541113255.58 1541113255.72 5 172.217.17.46 1541113255.59 1541113255.73 6 172.217.17.46 1541113255.59 1541113255.73 7 172.217.17.46 1541113255.6 1541113255.74 8 172.217.17.46 1541113255.6 1541113255.74 9 172.217.17.46 1541113255.6 1541113255.74 10 172.217.17.46 1541113255.61 1541113255.75 11 172.217.17.46 1541113255.61 1541113255.75 12 172.217.17.46 1541113255.61 1541113255.75 13 172.217.17.46 1541113255.62 1541113255.76 14 172.217.17.46 1541113255.62 1541113255.76 15 172.217.17.46 1541113255.62 1541113255.76 16 172.217.17.46 1541113255.62 1541113255.77 17 172.217.17.46 1541113255.63 1541113255.77 18 172.217.17.46 1541113255.63 1541113255.77 19 172.217.17.46 1541113255.63 1541113255.77 20 172.217.17.46 1541113255.63 1541113255.77 21 172.217.17.46 1541113255.64 1541113255.78 22 172.217.17.46 1541113255.64 1541113255.78 23 172.217.17.46 1541113255.64 1541113255.78 24 172.217.17.46 1541113255.64 1541113255.78 25 172.217.17.46 1541113255.65 1541113255.79 26 172.217.17.46 1541113255.65 1541113255.79 27 172.217.17.46 1541113255.65 1541113255.79 28 172.217.17.46 1541113255.66 1541113255.8 29 172.217.17.46 1541113255.66 1541113255.8 30 172.217.17.46 1541113255.66 1541113255.8I want to get the same results which I get when I run tcptraceroute from command line: tcptraceroute 172.217.17.46
Result from command line:
Selected device en0, address 192.168.86.24, port 49618 for outgoing packets Tracing the path to 172.217.17.46 on TCP port 80 (http), 30 hops max 1 192.168.86.1 2.848 ms 1.224 ms 1.330 ms 2 96.120.101.53 10.423 ms 13.646 ms 12.221 ms 3 po-115-rur102.bellevue.wa.seattle.comcast.net (68.87.205.245) 18.877 ms 18.818 ms 12.593 ms 4 be-103-ar01.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net (69.139.164.77) 15.188 ms 14.272 ms 14.005 ms 5 be-33650-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.93.165) 14.547 ms 15.273 ms 19.750 ms 6 be-10846-pe01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.90) 14.546 ms 14.266 ms 13.521 ms 7 50.242.150.242 14.159 ms 15.791 ms 14.037 ms 8 74.125.243.195 14.635 ms 22.377 ms 13.558 ms 9 72.14.236.174 15.051 ms 27.454 ms 14.312 ms 10 108.170.235.60 66.430 ms 69.762 ms 68.606 ms 11 216.239.58.255 85.531 ms 84.354 ms 85.303 ms 12 172.253.51.157 153.310 ms 154.710 ms 153.375 ms 13 209.85.142.166 157.376 ms 166.552 ms 157.562 ms 14 216.239.43.37 170.523 ms 168.040 ms 158.182 ms 15 108.170.241.225 158.953 ms 161.418 ms 169.103 ms 16 108.170.236.137 158.561 ms 161.635 ms 157.510 ms 17 ams16s29-in-f46.1e100.net (172.217.17.46) [open] 165.981 ms 160.451 ms 166.120 msQuestion1: Is scapy traceroute function really does TCP traceroute? Question2: I am new to scapy and traceroute, Is there something obvious I am missing in the code? Is there any other library which I can use if scapy is not suitable? I would really appreciate the help and any pointers.
NOTE: I WANT TO PERFORM TCP TRACE ROUTE FOR BOTH IPV6 AND IPV4.
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Cukic0d over 5 yearsA ping and a traceroute are not quite the same :/
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Monty about 3 yearsDo you have some updated code for 2021 please? I cannot get any of your code snippets to run on Python 3.8 on MacOS.
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Panos Kalatzantonakis about 3 yearsIt's not a Python version issue. It's scapy version. I have just tested my snippets using Python 3.7.7, 3.81, and works fine with scapy 2.4.3. Using the latest scapy documentation their examples do not work!
