Measuring bytes of packet sent from python application

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-01-05, Jonathan Gardner <jgardner at jonathangardner.net> wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2:26 pm, Kangkook Jee <aixe... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to measure number of bytes sent(or recv'd) from my
>> python application. Does anyone have any idea how can I
>> achieve this?
>>
>> I tried to do this by tracing some socket calls (send, sendto,
>> sendAll) using 'metaclass' but I could find exactly place that
>> I can put this in.
>>
>> My application runs some number of protocols (bittorrent,
>> xmlrpc ..) in it and will be measured for a couple of hours.
>
> A good universal tool on the Linux platform is tcpdump. It takes some
> learning, but is very useful for this kind of task. You can use a tool
> like ethereal to visualize the data that tcpdump gathers.

Ethereal has been called wireshark for quite a while now.  It
can be used to capture the traffic as well as to visualize it.

Wireshark is available for both Linux and Windows.

-- 
Grant