fix install error with scapy on Mac

solve the install error with scapy on Mac.

Posted by ourren on January 23, 2015

Today there are some errors when I run scapy on Mac system. I installed scapy with pip (pip install scapy). it catchs some errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/scapy", line 25, in 
interact()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/main.py", line 278, in interact
scapy_builtins = import("all",globals(),locals(),".").dict
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/all.py", line 25, in 
from route import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/route.py", line 162, in 
	conf.route=Route()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/route.py", line 22, in init
self.resync()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/route.py", line 31, in resync
self.routes = read_routes()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/arch/unix.py", line 86, in read_routes
ifaddr = scapy.arch.get_if_addr(netif)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/arch/init.py", line 36, in get_if_addr
return socket.inet_ntoa(get_if_raw_addr(iff))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/arch/pcapdnet.py", line 187, in get_if_raw_addr
i = dnet.intf()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'intf'

I have search from Google, seems many guys have come across the same problem with me. I have solved this problem with the follow steps:

1.remove the previous scapy.

sudo pip install pyrex --allow-all-external --allow-unverified pyrex

2.reinstall the scapy with brew.

brew reinstall scapy 

The whole steps are all above.