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.
go get command:
go get github.com/safchain/ethtool
Testing
In order to run te
go test github.com/safchain/ethtool
Retrieve tx from eth0
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/safchain/ethtool"
)
func main() {
stats, err := ethtool.Stats("eth0")
if err != nil {
panic
}
fmt.Printf("TX: %d\n", stats["tx_bytes"])
}
Retrieve peer index of a veth interface
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/safchain/ethtool"
)
func main() {
stats, err := ethtool.Stats("veth0")
if err != nil {
panic
}
fmt.Printf("Peer Index: %d\n", stats["peer_ifindex"])
}
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