Syn flood program in python using raw sockets (Linux)

Syn flood and raw sockets
A syn flood program sends out large number of tcp syn packets to a remote host on a particular port number. Syn packets are intended to initiate a tcp connection. However if a large number of syn packets are send without any purpose, then then it would consume a lot of resources like memory on the remote system. This concept is used in denial of service (dos) attacks. It is like jamming the networking path of a remote machine or device. This results in the device being unable to serve actual requests from legitimate users.
In this article we are going to write a very simple syn flood program in python. A syn flood program works by creating syn packets which need raw socket support. Linux has raw socket support natively and hence the program shown in this example shall work only on a linux system even though python itself is platform independant. This is because the underlying socket libraries are different on windows and linux.
Code
The theory behind the code is quite simple. Just create a raw socket and a tcp syn packet and send the packet over the raw socket. That is all that needs to...

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Syn flood program in python using raw sockets (Linux)