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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import urllib2
+import json
+import re
+import sys
+
+from optparse import OptionParser
+
+sys.path.append('~/floodlight/target/gen-py')
+sys.path.append('~/floodlight/thrift/lib/py')
+
+from packetstreamer import PacketStreamer
+from packetstreamer.ttypes import *
+
+from thrift import Thrift
+from thrift.transport import TSocket
+from thrift.transport import TTransport
+from thrift.protocol import TBinaryProtocol
+
+SESSIONID = 'sessionId'
+usage = "usage: %prog [options]"
+parser = OptionParser(usage=usage, version="%prog 1.0")
+parser.add_option("-c", "--controller", dest="controller", metavar="CONTROLLER_IP",
+                  default="127.0.0.1", help="controller's IP address")
+parser.add_option("-m", "--mac", dest="mac", metavar="HOST_MAC",
+                  help="The host mac address to trace the OF packets")
+
+(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
+
+def validateIp(ip):
+    ipReg = ("(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)" 
+             "\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)"
+             "\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)"
+             "\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)")
+    m = re.compile(ipReg).match(ip)
+    if m:
+        return True
+    else :
+        return False
+
+def validateMac(mac):
+    macReg = '([a-fA-F0-9]{2}:){5}[a-fA-F0-9]{2}' # same regex as above
+    m = re.compile(macReg).match(mac)
+    if m:
+        return True
+    else :
+        return False
+
+if not validateIp(options.controller):
+    parser.error("Invalid format for ip address.")
+
+if not options.mac:
+    parser.error("-m or --mac option is required.")
+
+if not validateMac(options.mac):
+    parser.error("Invalid format for mac address. Format: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx")
+
+controller = options.controller
+host = options.mac
+
+url = 'http://%s:8080/wm/core/packettrace/json' % controller
+filter = {'mac':host, 'direction':'both', 'period':1000}
+post_data = json.dumps(filter)
+request = urllib2.Request(url, post_data, {'Content-Type':'application/json'})
+response_text = None
+
+def terminateTrace(sid):
+    global controller
+
+    filter = {SESSIONID:sid, 'period':-1}
+    post_data = json.dumps(filter)
+    url = 'http://%s:8080/wm/core/packettrace/json' % controller
+    request = urllib2.Request(url, post_data, {'Content-Type':'application/json'})
+    try:
+        response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
+        response_text = response.read()
+    except Exception, e:
+        # Floodlight may not be running, but we don't want that to be a fatal
+        # error, so we just ignore the exception in that case.
+        print "Exception:", e
+
+try: 
+    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
+    response_text = response.read()
+except Exception, e:
+    # Floodlight may not be running, but we don't want that to be a fatal
+    # error, so we just ignore the exception in that case.
+    print "Exception:", e
+    exit
+
+if not response_text:
+    print "Failed to start a packet trace session"
+    sys.exit()
+
+response_text = json.loads(response_text)
+
+sessionId = None
+if SESSIONID in response_text:
+    sessionId = response_text[SESSIONID]
+else:
+    print "Failed to start a packet trace session"
+    sys.exit()
+
+try:
+
+    # Make socket
+    transport = TSocket.TSocket('localhost', 9090)
+
+    # Buffering is critical. Raw sockets are very slow
+    transport = TTransport.TFramedTransport(transport)
+
+    # Wrap in a protocol
+    protocol = TBinaryProtocol.TBinaryProtocol(transport)
+
+    # Create a client to use the protocol encoder
+    client = PacketStreamer.Client(protocol)
+
+    # Connect!
+    transport.open()
+
+    while 1:
+        packets = client.getPackets(sessionId)
+        for packet in packets:
+            print "Packet: %s"% packet
+            if "FilterTimeout" in packet:
+                sys.exit()
+
+except Thrift.TException, e:
+    print '%s' % (e.message)
+    terminateTrace(sessionId)
+
+except KeyboardInterrupt, e:
+    terminateTrace(sessionId)
+
+# Close!
+transport.close()
+