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Python Network Programming

By : Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
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Python Network Programming

By: Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker

Overview of this book

This Learning Path highlights major aspects of Python network programming such as writing simple networking clients, creating and deploying SDN and NFV systems, and extending your network with Mininet. You’ll also learn how to automate legacy and the latest network devices. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll use Python for DevOps and open source tools to test, secure, and analyze your network. Toward the end, you'll develop client-side applications, such as web API clients, email clients, SSH, and FTP, using socket programming. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have learned how to analyze a network's security vulnerabilities using advanced network packet capture and analysis techniques. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Practical Network Automation by Abhishek Ratan • Mastering Python Networking by Eric Chou • Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition by Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Writing a simple UDP echo client/server application


As we have developed a simple TCP server and client in the previous recipe, we will now look at how to develop the same with UDP.

How to do it...

This recipe is similar to the previous one, except this one is with UDP. The method recvfrom() reads the messages from the socket and returns the data and the client address.

Listing 1.14a shows how to write a simple UDP echo client/server application as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12
   and Python 3.5.2. 
# It may run on any other version with/without 
  modifications. 
 
import socket 
import sys 
import argparse 
 
host = 'localhost' 
data_payload = 2048 
 
def echo_server(port): 
    """ A simple echo server """ 
    # Create a UDP socket 
    sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, 
                         socket.SOCK_DGRAM) 
 
    # Bind the socket to the port 
    server_address = (host, port) 
    print ("Starting up echo server 
            on...