On Wed, 2006-18-01 at 16:13 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > shemminger wrote: > > > It makes no sense to extend ethtool for something generic like that. > > It shouldn't be that hard to do netlink in some richer scripting > > language (like perl), but I haven't tried. > > If you're using perl, you've already given up performance, so just > parse /proc/net/dev. > > I implemented my patch to more efficiently (and easily) grab the stats for 250 > interfaces every few seconds. >
And if you are serious about performance you should use netlink. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
