[plug] Network/Modem related questions

[Onno Benschop]

Timothy White wrote:

>Hi. I'm doing a little bit of programming atm and need to find out how
>to get some realtime information about a ppp connection.
>Mainly I need current transfer rates (up and down) and it'd be nice to
>also have connection time and total transferred.
>It all needs to be easy to use as it's all being used in scripts. 
>I know that /proc/net/dev has total transmitted and received packets
>and bytes so if I sampled it and new the time between sampling I can
>get an average. Is that how other people do it? Would that be a little
>CPU intensive?
>  
>
Uhm, doesn't pppstats give you all that?

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