Scapy is a Swiss-army knife for network manipulation. For this reason, it can be used in many tasks and areas:

• Research in communications networks
• Security tests and ethical hacking to manipulate the traffic generated
• Package-capture, processing, and handling
• Generating packages with a specific protocol
• Showing detailed information about a certain package
• Packet-capturing, crafting, and manipulation
• Network Traffic Analysis Tools
• Fuzzing protocols and IDS/IPS testing
• Wireless discovery tools