CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/scapy

["David H. Gutteridge" <gutteridge%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   gutteridge
Date:           Sun May 16 19:58:17 UTC 2021

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/net/scapy: DESCR

Log Message:
scapy: update DESCR


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.1.1.1 -r1.2 pkgsrc/net/scapy/DESCR

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/net/scapy/DESCR
diff -u pkgsrc/net/scapy/DESCR:1.1.1.1 pkgsrc/net/scapy/DESCR:1.2
--- pkgsrc/net/scapy/DESCR:1.1.1.1      Wed Aug 10 13:54:58 2005
+++ pkgsrc/net/scapy/DESCR      Sun May 16 19:58:17 2021
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
-Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able
-to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols, send them on
-the wire, capture them, match requests and replies, and much more.
+Scapy is a powerful Python-based interactive packet manipulation program
+and library. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of
+protocols, send them on the wire, capture them, store or read them using
+pcap files, match requests and replies, and much more. It is designed to
+allow fast packet prototyping by using default values that work.
+
+It can easily handle most classical tasks like scanning, tracerouting,
+probing, unit tests, attacks or network discovery (it can replace hping,
+85% of nmap, arpspoof, arp-sk, arping, tcpdump, wireshark, p0f, etc.).
+It also performs very well at a lot of other specific tasks that most
+other tools can't handle, like sending invalid frames, injecting your
+own 802.11 frames, combining techniques (VLAN hopping+ARP cache
+poisoning, VoIP decoding on WEP protected channel, ...), etc.
+
+Scapy supports Python 2.7 and Python 3 (3.4 to 3.9). It's intended to be
+cross platform, and runs on many different platforms (Linux, OSX, *BSD,
+and Windows).