How to calculate throughput based on wireshark

Question

You know ping is part of ICMP protocol. I want to calculate throughput based on these ICMP message. The way is calculate Number of this ICMP meesage multiple number of bite of ICMP packet divide by total time. Is there any thing in wireshark inordetr to do that? If not what is your suggestion is there any thing like linux awk in win 7 to work with it by exporting wireshark log to txt file.

Answer 1

You can simply get the number of ICMP ping request packets through wireshark filters. Multiply it with the default ping packet size and then divide by the total time.

Answer 2

Click Statistics => Summary (This gives average throughput) Statistics => IO Graph (This has options which gives you instantaneous throughput)