My first question is whether a command exists that provides info
about the backlog.
My second question is whether a system call exists that provides this
info. I would like to be able to query on the backlog at real time
and invoking the shell on each such query sounds like a lot of
Greetings --
in the Linux Advanced Routing Traffic Control HOWTO
chapter 14.1 on bfifo/pfifo it says that:
you can use this qdisc to determine the backlog on your interface.
But it does not say exactly how.
Command [#tc -s qdisc ls] outputs the number of packets sent so far
but it does not