Net::Int::Stats - Reports specific ifconfig values for a network interface

  use Net::Int::Stats;

  my $get = Net::Int::Stats->new();

  # get value for specific interface
  my $int     = 'eth0';
  my $stat    = 'rx_packets';
  my $packets = $get->value($int, $stat);

This module provides various statistics generated from the ifconfig command for specific interfaces. RX values consist of packets, errors, dropped, overruns, and frame. TX values consist of packets, errors, dropped, overruns, and carrier. In addition, collisions and txqueuelen are reported. Values are in the format of type:n - ex 'packets:123456'.

Use this one method to get specific values which requires two arguments: value(). Ex: $packets = $get->value($int, 'rx_packets');

The first argument is the interface and the second is the type value to extract.

RX values - rx_packets, rx_errors, rx_dropped, rx_overruns, rx_frame

TX values - tx_packets, tx_errors, tx_dropped, tx_overruns, tx_carrier

Miscellaneous values - collisions, txqueuelen

This module is platform dependent. It uses the linux version of /sbin/ifconfig. Other platforms such as the windows equivalent of ipconfig, mac osx, and other versions of unix are not supported. This is due to the fact that each platform generates and displays different information in different formats of ifconfig results. The linux version is used over the other platforms because of the amount of data the default command outputs.

linux command /sbin/ifconfig

ifconfig output contains more information than the values that are extracted in this module. More values can be added if there are any requests to do so.

Bruce Burch <bcb12001@yahoo.com>

Copyright (C) 2009 by Bruce Burch

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.