topic Re: C Program to Check Network Interfaces in Operating System - HP-UX

C Program to Check Network Interfaces

Greg Wojtak_1 — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:41:56 GMT

I am writing a C program to get some various system information counters on HP-UX 11.11 and 11.23. I have gotten most of what I need from the pstat family of functions, but the one thing that I am unable to figure out is the ethernet card information. I want to be able to see the same type of information that is output in with a netstat -ai (collisions, in/out packets, and errors). I've searched the forums and from what I've seen, it sounds like HP is not documenting how to do this directly. Is this still the case? I've tusc'd a netstat -ai command and it looks /dev/dlpi is being opened and some STREAMs-based stuff is going on, ie putmsg() and getmsg(), along with a couple of ioctl()'s.

Is it possible to get this information directly rather than exec()'ing netstat?

Re: C Program to Check Network Interfaces

Steve Steel — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:42:37 GMT

Hi

never tried it but

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

Search on network and see if you can find an example you can use

Steve Steel

Re: C Program to Check Network Interfaces

Mark Greene_1 — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:31:46 GMT

Can you tell if netstat is using /usr/conf/h/io.h? Seems to be quite a few clues in there if it applies.

mark

Re: C Program to Check Network Interfaces

Carlos Roberto Schimidt — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:40:15 GMT

Netstat dont show collision. USe lanadmin or landiag for this.

You can use snmp for acomplish this task.

See http://www.net-snmp.org for more information.

Using a mib browser is possible find wich attributes you need.

Schimidt