On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Mehta, Phoram Kirtikumar (UMKC-Student) wrote: > 1. how does ifconfig and netstat get teh net statistics, where can i get > the source to that funtion or source file. They are from /proc/net/. > 2. is there any funtion in the network device driver source by accessing > which i can get the packets received or the type of packets. if not can > anybody gimme some tips on how can i write it. You can use a packet filter. > i am trying to write or modify the eth device driver(3c509.c) in such a > way that i can statistics of the traffic and then i also want to > identify teh traffic. in short i want to incorporate a function in my > driver which when acceseed would act as a sniffer/protocol analyzer . > any help or advise will be appreciated. Do it in userspace with packet filters. Look at tcpdump for example code. Rasmus -- -- [ Rasmus 'Møffe' Bøg Hansen ] --------------------------------------- [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the University of Mars. --------------------------------- [ moffe at amagerkollegiet dot dk ] -- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
