getifaddr

Hello,

I wrote a network byte monitor in BSD, thinking that it would port
directly to GNU with a few minor changes. However, I've found that the
if_addr structure does not contain a link to the if_data struct on GNU
stdlib.

What function calls should I make to get this similar data in GNU land?

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ed wrote:

> I wrote a network byte monitor in BSD, thinking that it would port
> directly to GNU with a few minor changes. However, I've found that
> the if_addr structure does not contain a link to the if_data struct
> on GNU stdlib.
>
> What function calls should I make to get this similar data in GNU
> land?

Is 'man netdevice' any help?
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man7/netdevice.7.html

(It seems this man page is rather old.)

Also, you might want to take a look at the source code for ethtool.
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/ethtool8.html

On Sun, 14 May 2006 09:51:59 +0200
Spoon <root@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> ed wrote:
>
> > I wrote a network byte monitor in BSD, thinking that it would port
> > directly to GNU with a few minor changes. However, I've found that
> > the if_addr structure does not contain a link to the if_data struct
> > on GNU stdlib.
> >
> > What function calls should I make to get this similar data in GNU
> > land?
>
> Is 'man netdevice' any help?
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man7/netdevice.7.html
>
> (It seems this man page is rather old.)
>
> Also, you might want to take a look at the source code for ethtool.
> http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/ethtool8.html

Ah yes I did see those, what I need is the byte counters that are in
if_data, what I've done (reluctantly) is to use /proc, but that's not
always going to be available on 2.2 systems is it?

www.s5h.net/code/netdev.c

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