Net-Int-Stats version 2.07 =========================== NAME Net::Int::Stats - Reports specific ifconfig values for a network interface SYNOPSIS 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); DESCRIPTION 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'. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES 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. SEE ALSO linux command /sbin/ifconfig NOTES ifconfig output contains more information than the values that are extracted in this module. More values and/or support for other operating systems can be added if there are any requests to do so. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2009 Bruce Burch This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.