On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Cesar Adamos wrote:
> >Why not use ping, unless this is an academic exercise?
>
> Nod, is easy enough to use ping, but I will need a target IP
> for it. I was thinking of getting events from the LAN card
> or something of the like. I was able to do this in windows
> based on a WMI sample i found in net, just dont know where
> to start in linux.
You could start with a few of the files in /proc/net.
$ cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 2981347 1892 0 0 0 0 0 0 2981347 1892 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0:112563502 367401 0 0 0 0 0 0 70524905 278334 0 0 0 0 0 0
$
I know this is just a byte/packet count, but it might be what you are
looking for.
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