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* A better way to get driver stats than parsing /proc/net/dev ?
@ 2003-04-11  7:56 Ben Greear
  2003-04-11 15:19 ` Jason Lunz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ben Greear @ 2003-04-11  7:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'netdev@oss.sgi.com'

Is there an ioctl or some other binary means of getting the
info that /proc/net/dev provides?

Thanks,
Ben

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* Re: A better way to get driver stats than parsing /proc/net/dev ?
  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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jason Lunz @ 2003-04-11 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev

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.

Jason

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* Re: A better way to get driver stats than parsing /proc/net/dev ?
  2003-04-11 15:19 ` Jason Lunz
@ 2003-04-11 17:26   ` Ben Greear
  2003-05-21 17:39     ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ben Greear @ 2003-04-11 17:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jason Lunz; +Cc: netdev

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 :(
And every man page I read says use libnetlink instead, but I can't find any docs
on libnetlink itself (and the .ru ftp link for iproute2 seems down).

Do you know of any pointers as to how to use libnetlink, or if it
really makes netlink easier to use?


> 
> Jason
> 


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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>       <Ben_Greear AT excite.com>
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* Re: A better way to get driver stats than parsing /proc/net/dev ?
  2003-04-11 17:26   ` Ben Greear
@ 2003-05-21 17:39     ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen @ 2003-05-21 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev

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

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