[PLUG] ifconfig

[Terry Griffin]

On Friday 25 June 2004 5:39 pm, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Hoping to avoid the source (code) I'll ask if anyone knows off the top of
> their head from where ifconfig pulls the information it displays.
>
> I'd like to do a similar type of reporting (not change) but doing greps,
> cuts, trs, and friends makes it a little too cumbersome.  Something
> similar to lsusb, lspci and lsmod comes to mind.
>    There is also the issue of interface display length.  Off the top of my
> head and based on discussions on the vserver list the interface name can
> be upto 15 characters long.  Ifconfig truncates it at nine with one of
> those being the colon.
>
>

You can get the statistics from /proc/net/dev.