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I am learning about network packets and I was wondering how I could intercept and modify and/or create a packet and send it?

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  • I have Windows OS.
  • I would prefer an easy to use and easy to understand program.
  • If possible, a program that can create and modify packets would be nice. But if there is no program that can do both please point me to two programs that can do each.
  • If there is one out there with a GUI, that would be very helpful to me.
  • A program that intercepts packets and allows for modifying, not just HTTP.

I have tried TcpCatcher, but for some reason it does not seem to capture any packets.

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    Are you OK with installing a Linux-on-Windows software like Gygwin?
    – Nicolas Raoul ♦
    May 20, 2014 at 4:39
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    Check this list wiki.wireshark.org/Tools#Traffic_generators
    – Cornelius
    May 20, 2014 at 13:03
  • @Nicolas Raoul I have Cygwin installed on my computer.
    – user3513675
    May 21, 2014 at 2:23
  • @Cornelius Thank you for this webpage, i was also wondering if there are any more that are not on that list?
    – user3513675
    May 21, 2014 at 2:24
  • I am also wondering if there is a program to intercept packets and allow for modifying them(Not just http)?
    – user3513675
    May 21, 2014 at 17:32

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I like to use Network Protocol Analyzer for this. It includes a network sniffer to capture network traffic, modify and resend it and has a function called "packet builder" that can create arbitrary packets from scratch and send them.

It's free, for Windows, with a GUI that I think it's reasonably easy to use (YMMV).

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My personal favourite in that realm is Scapy.

According to this answer, it seems to be possible to run on Windows platforms, too.

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    Scapy is wonderful, but there is no GUI as far as I know, and it is not very simple to learn. It is based off of Python, so if you have any experience in that language, you will have an advantage.
    – hololeap
    Oct 18, 2014 at 1:56

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