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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• ifstat

Projektgeschichte

The release history begins with v0.1 on 2001-12-02, supporting Linux 2.2 and /proc. Within days, v0.2 added FreeBSD ifmib, Solaris kstat, interface discovery, and man pages.

During 2001 and 2002 the tool gained BSD kvm support, ucd-snmp support, Debian and RPM packaging support, loopback handling, multiple driver support, timestamping, and cleaner internal driver structure.

Version 1.0 in 2003 broadened Unix support with IRIX, OpenBSD, BSD route sysctl, improved kvm, terminal resizing behavior, total bandwidth reporting, and static library support. Version 1.1 in 2004 added Digital Unix, Tru64, AIX, HP-UX, Win32, and net-snmp-config integration.

Adoptionsgeschichte

ifstat spread through classic Unix packaging channels because it solved a simple operational problem with a familiar interface: repeatable interface counters in a terminal. The supplied metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, and Ubuntu package names.

Its adoption is also tied to portability. The upstream README lists Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, IRIX, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, Digital Unix, AIX, HP-UX, and Win32 support, which made it useful on mixed Unix estates before Linux-only tooling dominated.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run ifstat to watch receive and transmit rates for one or more interfaces. The README's usage section reduces the basic workflow to running the command and watching statistics update.

Administrators can use the build-time driver options to force or disable platform backends, and SNMP support lets the same style of output poll remote equipment when net-snmp or ucd-snmp is available.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ifstat is the sort of boring CLI package that explains why Unix package collections matter: it wraps many incompatible kernel-counter APIs behind one tiny command.

It also shows an older portability style, where configure checks, optional drivers, and per-OS counter backends made one C utility useful across a surprising number of operating systems.

Zeitleiste

• 2001-12-02: v0.1 initial implementation with Linux /proc support.
• 2001-12-04: v0.2 adds FreeBSD ifmib and Solaris kstat support.
• 2001-12-24: v0.4 adds SNMP support through ucd-snmp.
• 2002-01-17: v0.5 adds packaging support and multiple driver work.
• 2003-04-21: v1.0 expands BSD and terminal behavior features.
• 2004-01-01: v1.1 adds more Unix and Win32 support.

Related projects

• vmstat and iostat are the conceptual models named by upstream.
• net-snmp, ucd-snmp, wmnet, and OS-specific kernel interfaces such as /proc/net/dev, kstat, ifmib, route sysctl, kvm, and GetIfTable are closely related to its implementation and use.

Quellen

• http://gael.roualland.free.fr/ifstat/
• http://gael.roualland.free.fr/ifstat/HISTORY
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ifstat
• https://github.com/matttbe/ifstat