How to get n/w card statistics

[Prakash Achuthan]

Hi,

Is there a way i can get the following statistics from my C++ program ?

1)Packets received
2)Receive errors
3)Packets transmitted
4)Transmit errors

Thanks,
Prakash

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

You use the lanadmin menu based program or netstat to get some stats. I not know of a way to do this via the command line using any C program.
You could also use glance and measureware to
get some performance stats.

Have a look at this link:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x29fc5e938a10d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

-Michael

[Ron Kinner]

SNMP can get these for you. I'm not sure of the syntax but if you read up on it you can get it to work. If you want to see how it's done get MRTG. The default setup just does bytes in and out but with a little minor configuration it will pick up and graph any SNMP variable.

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

It's free and it works well on UNIX or WinNT.

Ron

[Ron Kinner]

Come to think of it there is no reason you couldn't just let MRTG run and use your C++ program to read the logfiles.

Ron

[Eric Ladner]

netstat -s (per protocol, tcp, udp, etc.)

netstat -I (packet in and out counts, no errors)

[Prakash Achuthan]

Hi Eric,

On HPUX 11i netstat -I shows only the incoming packets & outgoing packets. It doesn't show the collision and errors.

$ netstat -I lan0
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Opkts
lan0 1500 15.70.177.0 nask5 216315 148912

lanadmin shows all the lan info, but only in menu mode.

regards,
Prakash.

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

# netstat -s

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Bill Hassell]

Just a note: lanadmin can run on the command line too:

echo "l\np 0\nd\n" | /usr/sbin/lanadmin

Change p 0 to p 1 or p 3 for each of your LAN interfaces.