[collectd] IPv4 stats

[Florian Forster]

Hi Vlad,

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:51:39AM +0100, Vladyslav Bakayev wrote:
> as for me it would be nice to have a plugin, which would collect
> (linux?) kernel data from ipv4 stack. I'm talking about the numbers
> which you can see as output of "netstat -s", or just parsing the /proc
> files, net/snmp and net/netstat.
> 
> By any chance, do you know if someone else is developing this, or
> should I start writing plugin from scratch?

that sounds interesting. I don't know of anyone currently working on
such a plugin, but I've sent a copy of this reply to the mailinglist,
maybe someone will speak up ;)

I'll also have a look at /proc/net/{udp,tcp}{,6}, likely some
interesting information is in those files, too.

Regards,
-octo
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Florian octo Forster
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