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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: netlink stats:   Ability to get stats for a single device?
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:35:20 +0200
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Le mardi 26 octobre 2010 =C3=A0 12:31 -0700, Ben Greear a =C3=A9crit :
> From what I can tell, it's impossible to request stats for a single
> network device via netlink.  When you have thousands of interfaces,
> this means a lot of wasted effort to get stats for a particular
> device.
>=20
> Am I missing something, or do I just need to write up a patch
> to have netlink pay attention to the ifindex?
>=20

Its already done

rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_GETLINK, rtnl_getlink, rtnl_dump_ifinfo);=20