the filter of sniff function in scapy does not work properly

Question

It seems that the filter of sniff function does not work properly.

I m executing the sniff with the following filter

a=sniff(co         


        

Answer 1

You can check into the syntax of filters in the following site http://biot.com/capstats/bpf.html. I was facing similar kinds of problems and it worked for me.

You might like to refer to this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37453283/filter-options-for-sniff-function-in-scapy#=

You can also try to test your program by opening the required ports before running code.