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

To: Jason Lunz <lunz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: A better way to get driver stats than parsing /proc/net/dev ?
From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:26:57 -0700
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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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