How to get get raw packets send and recieved from TcpClient class?

Question

Does the TcpClient class keep track of the number of bytes sent, received, and error counts or is there some other class that do something similar to that? I don't think the tcpclient class can do that.

Answer 1

No TcpClient does not keep such statistics. You could look at the interface statistics for pure send/receive (though it would include traffic other than TCP): MSDN

Most of the time TcpClient is wrapped in another class (at least it is when I use it). It would be trivial to track send/receive counts with such a wrapper.

Answer 2

TcpClient does not do that. You can write yourself a small class that tracks this state. You could derive from Stream and build a reusable stream that tracks all kinds of metrics, and otherwise just relays all commands to another stream.