Question

I’am actually searching for a file on linux that contain the network’s load/stat.
Where could i find such a file ? I’ve searched in /proc/net but i hadn’t find yet.

Thanks,

Answer 1

/proc/net/dev

From man page:

/proc/net/dev
The dev pseudo-file contains network device status information. This
gives the number of received and sent packets, the number of errors
and collisions and other basic statistics. These are used by the
ifconfig(8) program to report device status. The format is:

Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
 face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
    lo: 2776770   11307    0    0    0     0          0         0  2776770   11307    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth0: 1215645    2751    0    0    0     0          0         0  1782404    4324    0    0    0   427       0          0
  ppp0: 1622270    5552    1    0    0     0          0         0   354130    5669    0    0    0     0       0          0
  tap0:    7714      81    0    0    0     0          0         0     7714      81    0    0    0     0       0          0