kilo/vendor/github.com/safchain/ethtool

ethtool go package

The ethtool package aims to provide a library giving a simple access to the Linux SIOCETHTOOL ioctl operations. It can be used to retrieve informations from a network device like statistics, driver related informations or even the peer of a VETH interface.

Build and Test

go get command:

go get github.com/safchain/ethtool

Testing

In order to run te

go test github.com/safchain/ethtool

Examples

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/safchain/ethtool"
)

func main() {
	ethHandle, err := ethtool.NewEthtool()
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	defer ethHandle.Close()

	// Retrieve tx from eth0
	stats, err := ethHandle.Stats("eth0")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	fmt.Printf("TX: %d\n", stats["tx_bytes"])

	// Retrieve peer index of a veth interface
	stats, err = ethHandle.Stats("veth0")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	fmt.Printf("Peer Index: %d\n", stats["peer_ifindex"])
}

LICENSE

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.