09-10-2002
Further question on 'ifconfig' output
I asked a similar question earlier and got a very good answer but a new doubt came up. This is a few lines of a '/sbin/ifconfig' command on my PC:
RX packets:3781025 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1941909 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Does the RX and TX packets number shown here represent the number of correctly received packets or the total number of packets?
That is, to obtain the correct number of received packets, do we have to subtract the number of errors, dropped, and so forth?
Thanks.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
pcap_stats
PCAP_STATS(3PCAP) PCAP_STATS(3PCAP)
NAME
pcap_stats - get capture statistics
SYNOPSIS
#include <pcap/pcap.h>
int pcap_stats(pcap_t *p, struct pcap_stat *ps);
DESCRIPTION
pcap_stats() fills in the struct pcap_stat pointed to by its second argument. The values represent packet statistics from the start of the
run to the time of the call.
pcap_stats() is supported only on live captures, not on ``savefiles''; no statistics are stored in ``savefiles'', so no statistics are
available when reading from a ``savefile''.
A struct pcap_stat has the following members:
ps_recv
number of packets received;
ps_drop
number of packets dropped because there was no room in the operating system's buffer when they arrived, because packets
weren't being read fast enough;
ps_ifdrop
number of packets dropped by the network interface or its driver.
The statistics do not behave the same way on all platforms. ps_recv might count packets whether they passed any filter set with pcap_set-
filter(3PCAP) or not, or it might count only packets that pass the filter. It also might, or might not, count packets dropped because
there was no room in the operating system's buffer when they arrived. ps_drop is not available on all platforms; it is zero on platforms
where it's not available. If packet filtering is done in libpcap, rather than in the operating system, it would count packets that don't
pass the filter. Both ps_recv and ps_drop might, or might not, count packets not yet read from the operating system and thus not yet seen
by the application. ps_ifdrop might, or might not, be implemented; if it's zero, that might mean that no packets were dropped by the
interface, or it might mean that the statistic is unavailable, so it should not be treated as an indication that the interface did not drop
any packets.
RETURN VALUE
pcap_stats() returns 0 on success and returns -1 if there is an error or if p doesn't support packet statistics. If -1 is returned,
pcap_geterr() or pcap_perror() may be called with p as an argument to fetch or display the error text.
SEE ALSO
pcap(3PCAP), pcap_geterr(3PCAP)
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