ya i can use the whole packet but think a situation where lots of packets are traveling in a network (FTP,HTTP etc) would it be a gud approach? and how can i implement the port listening for packet capture, i found the libpcap library (it has java port also )..is it the only one which i can use?
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Debasish Ray Chawdhuri < [email protected]> wrote: > Why don't you use the size of the packets themselves. After all, your HTTP > header also adds to the band width (but does not show in Content-Length > response header. > > As java would not let you sniff packets, you should use either C or C++ as > you choose. > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Deepak Garg <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I want to develop a network bandwidth calculation program. i am a beginner >> to this type of work. >> >> my strategy to do this is as follows:- >> >> 1. First sniffing the packets on a particular port ( for example if in >> first phase, I want to calculate bandwidth only for HTTP packets, port 80 ) >> 2. Extract the header and get the size information of the payload. >> 3. Now calculating the bandwidth.. >> >> is this the correct approach? >> Kindly give me some directions on it like: how can i proceed to do that >> ,which language i should use (i am comfortable with java, c/c++ ) >> >> >> Best Regards >> Deepak Garg >> B.Tech(CSE) >> Amity University >> >> -- >> Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: >> http://lug-iitd.org/Footer >> > > > > -- > Debasish Ray Chawdhuri > > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- U.D.I.T Sent by Nokia OVI (c) -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
