The Scapy module in Python

What's the Scapy module for?

A: Scapy is a powerful interactive packet handler (written in Python). It can spoof or decode a large number of network protocol packets, can send, capture, match requests and reply packets and so on. It can easily handle some typical operations such as port scanning, tracerouting, probing, unit testing, attack or network Discovery (alternative to Hping,nmap,arpspoof,arp-sk,arping,tcpdump,tethereal, P0F, etc.). Most importantly, he has many better features--Sending invalid data frames, injecting modified 802.11 data frames, decoding encrypted channels (VOIP) on WEP, ARP cache attacks (VLANs), and so on, which other tools cannot handle.

To send an ICMP packet:

The Scapy module in Python