Re: How to get stats from the driver?


From: Jouni Malinen (jkmaline_at_cc.hut.fi)
Date: 2002-09-11 15:45:58 UTC



On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 04:53:23PM +0200, Victor Aleo wrote:

> The first problem is that the info provided by
> /proc/net/prism2/wlan#/stats does not provide the number of bytes
> transmitted and received by the AP, but only the total number of frames
> (TxFragments and RxFragments).

Eh? TxUnicastOctets, TxMulticastOctets, RxUnicastOctets, RxMulticastOctets..

> Then, the correct question is: How can I do to fetch the total number of
> transmitted and received bytes?

See above or use wlan# netdev statistics. The driver increases the statistics in the Linux netdev and 'stats' in procfs is the sum from the CommTallies from the card firmware.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA


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