Re: A better way to get driver stats than parsing /proc/net/dev ?

[Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Lunz wrote:
> greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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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