NAME¶

tapset::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 data to be transmitted.

 

SEE ALSO¶

stap(1), stapprobes(3stap)