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From: "Rask Ingemann Lambertsen" <rask@sygehus.dk>
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: A better way to get driver stats than parsing /proc/net/dev ?
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 18:39:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030521173554.M92611@sygehus.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E96FAE1.7030302@candelatech.com>

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:26:57 -0700, Ben Greear wrote
> Jason Lunz wrote:
> > greearb@candelatech.com said:
> > 
> >>Is there an ioctl or some other binary means of getting the info that
> >>/proc/net/dev provides?
> > 
> > You can do it with netlink sockets. See print_linkinfo() in the iproute2
> > code.
> 
> Seems that a lot of code is needed just to read the stats :(

Maybe it is easier to parse the output from "ip -s -s link show [iface]". At 
least you get all the counters, which you don't from /proc/net/dev.

-- 
Regards,
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen

      reply	other threads:[~2003-05-21 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-11  7:56 A better way to get driver stats than parsing /proc/net/dev ? Ben Greear
2003-04-11 15:19 ` Jason Lunz
2003-04-11 17:26   ` Ben Greear
2003-05-21 17:39     ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen [this message]

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