[H-GEN] Re: getting eth0 information

[Martin Pool]

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On  6 Dec 2000, Benjamin Robert Carlyle <benc at foxboro.com.au> wrote:

> Martin's ifconfig idea is cute, and I have
> vauge recollections that ifconfig it's self reads from /proc. 

Yes, that's what I meant by mentioning /proc/net/dev.  It's a fairly
nice separation to just have the userspace programs put a friendly
face on this information.

You might look at GNOME's libgtop, which tries to hide platform
differences, though at the cost of a somewhat complex API.  There are
probably others.  As Ben says you could use SNMP.

-- 
Martin

This is a meritocrosy

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