[ale] Help on device driver hacking

[Doug McNash]

Do 'cat /proc/net/dev' and you can pick off #packets and 
#total bytes per interface.  There maybe other statistics 
in the vast proc filesystem you might be interested in. 
 If you want to add custom statistics I would start 
looking at the section of code that outputs the /proc 
info.

>Also can somebody guide me(or give a few 
>hints/references) on how to program
>a NIC device driver to record number/size of packets 
>transferred over the
>NIC.
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Doug McNash
dmcnash at smyrnacable.net
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