stapprobes.netdev(5) - Linux man page

Name

stapprobes.netdev - systemtap network device probe points

Description

This family of probe points is used to probe the activities of network device. It contains the following probe points:

netdev.receive
Fires when

data arrives on network device

Arguments:

dev_name The name of the device. e.g: eth0, ath1

length The length of the receiving buffer

protocol The possible values of protocol could be:
0800 IP
8100 802.1Q VLAN
0001 802.3
0002 AX.25
0004 802.2
8035 RARP
0005 SNAP
0805 X.25
0806 ARP
8137 IPX
0009 Localtalk
86DD IPv6

truesize The size of the received data

netdev.transmit
Fires when the network device wants to transmit a buffer

Arguments:

dev_name The name of the device. e.g: eth0, ath1

length The length of the transmit buffer

protocol The protocol of this packet.

truesize The size of the the data to be transmitted.

See Also

stap(1), stapprobes(5),