Thread: Network Interface Card Traffic

So what's wrong with ifconfig, which was suggested in post #2?

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4D:89:B5:73  
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:4451227 (4.2 MiB)  TX bytes:1435602 (1.3 MiB)
          Interrupt:23 Base address:0x8000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:354 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:354 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:180029 (175.8 KiB)  TX bytes:180029 (175.8 KiB)

I believe RX is short for "received" and TX is short for "transmitted".

Originally Posted by hosseinyounesi

yes, but isn't there any function or library that can be used in C or C++ ?!

I think pcap() will provide you with that info too, but really I look at that and see that it will take about 10 lines of code to parse, so why bother using a library?

There are probably a cazillion little GUI apps around for this stuff, eg, it is one thing that the incredibly awesome gkrellm covers, if you learn to use one of those new "search engines" everyone talks about, such as "google.com" you might find something...