Bug 293051

Summary:	Need IPv4 equivalent of /proc/net/dev_snmp6
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jan Safranek <jsafrane>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Neil Horman <nhorman>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version:	5.1	CC:	jbaron, nhorman
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Description Jan Safranek 2007-09-17 10:47:03 UTC

Description of problem:
/proc/net/dev_snmp6 contains various per-interface statistics about
incoming/outgoing ipv6 traffic. Net-snmp needs the same per-interface
statistics, but for ipv4 packets.

Comment 1 Neil Horman 2007-10-01 20:07:25 UTC

does /proc/net/dev not have what you're looking for?

Comment 2 Jan Safranek 2007-10-02 06:48:53 UTC

It seems to me /proc/dev/net contains statistics from link layer, i.e. ipv4 and
ipv6 are combined together, multicast means multicast on L2 (not ipv4 multicast)
etc. I need just ipv4 statistics.

In addition, net-snmp would need finer granularity of the statistics, e.g. split
'errors' column into 'TooBigErrors', 'InAddrErrors', 'InHdrErrors', split 'drop'
 by reason etc.

Comment 3 Neil Horman 2007-11-16 17:04:56 UTC

I've looked at this, and I'm sorry, but we just can't do this in RHEL5.  We
can't add this in without breaking ABI. About the only thing that I can
reccomend for RHEL5 is to cobble the statstics together from teh output of
netstat -S <iface>