Re: Bandwidth Monitor
- From: "Arkady Frenkel" <arkadyf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:32:06 +0200
If you mean monitoring only that OK ( we aware that protocol driver used
inside winpcap ) , but not in the case you'll want to change( limiting ) the
traffic
Arkady
"Roulette" <Roulette@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks very much for the advice...WinPcap seems like exactly what I
> need.
>
> - Roulette
>
> "Dave Lowther" <davel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Roulette" <Roulette@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>
>>> I want to write a bandwidth monitor that will tally up how much data
>> is
>>> sent and received from the machine on which it is run. (I need to add
>> some
>>> additional custom functionality, so I'm not looking for any existing
>>> applications like AnalogX's free monitor, etc..)
>>>
>>> Can anyone suggest how I would go about doing this? Would you
>> intercept
>>> the appropriate Windows functions, tally up the amount of data being
>>> sent
>>> and received, and then call the original functions? If so, how would
>>> you
>> go
>>> about intercepting such functions? Which functions would be necessary -
>>> just the Winsock send() and recv() functions (assuming we're just
>>> talking
>>> about Winsock-based networking), or are there additional functions I'd
>> have
>>> to worry about?
>>>
>>> Or is there an easier way to do this?
>>
>> Yes, assuming you just want to monitor and not modify anything.
>>
>> Use WinPcap http://www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm
>>
>> Essentially it eavesdrops on the network link and captures all the
>> Ethernet
>> packets.
>>
>> You can then process the packets to count how many bytes are being sent /
>> received.
>>
>> If for example you wanted to see how much *Internet* bandwidth it was
>> using,
>> then you can just process packets where Src or Dest IP is not on local
>> LAN.
>>
>> Dave.
>>
>>
>
>
.
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