On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 11:05:43AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 06:19:05PM +0200, Igor Genibel wrote: > > ifstat is a tool to report network interfaces bandwith just like > > vmstat/iostat do for other system counters. ifstat gathers these > > statistics from the kernel internal counters, which is highly operating > > system dependent. ifstat can use it to gather statistics from remote > > equipments (hosts, routers, switches...) or even the local host if a > > SNMP daemon is running. > > This description is fairly incomprehensible. Does it use the kernel > counters, snmp, or both?
both. It can gather local informations from /proc/net/dev or local snmpd and gather remote informations from snmpd. Cheers. -- Igor Genibel http://www.alcove.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tuxfamily.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~igenibel [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/9D735B4F: 4F61 8D8F 05AC 8D2C 5F92 9B99 C44B 0266 9D73 5B4F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
