[Gllug] viewing network traffic with ip (iproute2)

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:21:47PM +0100, Jon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to switch over to using the new iproute2 stuff and the ip
> command from ifconfig.  So far I've found equivalents of all the old
> behaviour except I can't find a way of showing the number of
> transmitted/received bytes/packets like ifconfig does.  Could someone
> tell me what the equivalent is using the iproute2 commands?

You need the -s (-stats) parameter.  Multiple apperances of the
parameter increase the level of detail.

  ip -s link show dev eth0
  ip -s -s link show dev eth0


-- 
Bruce

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