[Pythonmac-SIG] Python solution to monitor your internet connection?

[Jack Jansen]

On 18-jan-04, at 18:21, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Jan 18, 2004, at 11:25 AM, W.T. Bridgman wrote:
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>> I know of a few commercial/shareware packages that can monitor your 
>> machine for apps that try to 'phone home' when you're online, but 
>> does anyone know of any open source (preferably Python) solutions for 
>> this?
>>
>> If not, can anyone point me to somewhere that I might find out what I 
>> need to write such an app that can monitor my internet connection?  
>> I'm specifically interested in monitoring OS X applications.  Do the 
>> python internet modules have sufficient access to the internet API to 
>> do this?
>
> You pretty much have to write the bulk of such a thing in C, since you 
> have to intercept calls to C functions from other processes.

I don't think you have to be *that* gross. The ipfirewall device (see 
man 4 firewall) can probably be used to make all packets be given to 
your code for inspection. But still I don't think I'd want to do this 
in Python because of the overhead.
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