Scapy BPF filter not working

Question

I am using Scapy and would like to filter based on the destination mac address.

However, I am getting packets displayed where the destination MAC address is not the address specified in the filter.

Here is a code snippit:

from scapy.all import *

sniff(iface="eth1", filter="ether dst host 91:e0:f0:01:00:00", 
      count=3, prn=lambda x: x.show())

I am running Scapy 2.2.0

Any ideas on the issue here?

Answer 1

Scapy requires numerous dependencies for many different systems. It is quiet possible that you don't have the required dependency for BPF filters to work.

http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/portability.html

Answer 2

Installing tcpdump solved the problem for me - now the filter on sniff works