looking for a way to check a networkcard without using snmp

Thomas Sluyter nagios at kilala.nl
Tue Nov 21 06:35:36 CET 2006


On 20 Nov, 2006, at 23:22, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, ralf.prengel at comline.de wrote:
>
>> I m looking for a way to check a networkcard without using snmp.
>> I searched using keywords like traffic, nic, load and network card  
>> but no hits.
>
> Have you tried looking under /proc/sys/net ?
> Does netstat provide you with the output you need?

And if you happen to be working on Solaris, there's always the  
"kstat" command. The kernel has a big bunch of counters related to  
the network interfaces.

Cheers,


Thomas

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