From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>, Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>,
Linux Network Development list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: a maze of twisty stats, most different
Date: 29 Jun 2007 19:30:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73abui4qj4.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF4B8149B6.D8E6CC86-ON88257308.006345F0-88257308.0064762A@us.ibm.com>
David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> writes:
> I think there's a more general problem that's a huge hassle. There are
> lots of
> new SNMP MIB's, but no conventions (that I'm aware of, at least) to allow
> for
> changes to the /proc entries that get them to applications.
Actually /proc/net/snmp and netstat -s are extensible. If you add a new
MIB or field there it should just show up in netstat -s. It won't know about
the text decoding that is done for the early traditional MIBs, but that
is already not there for most of the newer fields.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-29 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-27 17:20 a maze of twisty stats, most different Rick Jones
2007-06-28 12:47 ` Chris Snook
2007-06-28 17:34 ` Rick Jones
2007-06-28 18:17 ` David Stevens
2007-06-28 20:36 ` David Miller
2007-06-28 21:21 ` Rick Jones
2007-06-29 17:30 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-06-29 18:21 ` David Stevens
2007-06-29 19:37 ` Andi Kleen
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