Re: Additional Information for Ethernet

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 03:13:42AM +0000, Spencer Ku (古世瑜) wrote:
> Hi All,
> We are developing the redfish of openbmc, and want to expose some Ethernet information through the redfish interface, like packet count, drop count. My goal is to calculate the bandwidth / drop package rate of the Ethernet. We can get those counts from Ethernet driver (/sys/class/net/{Ethernet_Name}/statistics), but as far as I know, there is no suitable d-bus to read those metrics.
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> My question is that: is it possible to create the new D-bus properties ( like under the /org/freedesktop/{network}/network/{Ethernet_Name}), then sync the counts to that D-Bus?

Why not just use netlink for this?  I think it provides this information
already as part of networking stats.  Have you looked into that?

thanks,

greg k-h