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From: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>
Subject: Re: A better way to get driver stats than parsing /proc/net/dev ?
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:19:52 +0000 (UTC)
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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