I was curious about statistics and network performance at DreamHack and wanted to get statistics for all of the user ports on the local network. There was no way a standard statefull program would be able to get the statistics for the hundreds of switches and thousands of ports on the network. So I created two simple python scripts. One that would spew out SNMP packets as fast as possible and one that would listen on incoming replies and print out the content on STDOUT. The sending script created [...]