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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Netlink event for network device statistics
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:56:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1259535397.4421.3.camel@violet> (raw)

Hi everyone,

so I was playing with monitoring network device statistics and storing
them over a period of time. While netlink and ethtool provides all the
network packet statistics, I have a problem with devices that are
actually hotplug. Especially 3G cards that get taken off the bus via
RFKILL and external dongles that can be unplugged at any time.

So I was thinking that before we send the DELLINK netlink event for that
interface, we should send the latest statistic details via netlink. Is
that a good idea or is there another way to get up-to-date statistics
without polling for them?

Regards

Marcel



             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-29 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-29 22:56 Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-12-01 11:28 ` Netlink event for network device statistics Patrick McHardy
2009-12-01 13:36   ` Marcel Holtmann

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