On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 01:25:18PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> For interface statistics from ip, try "ip -s link [interface]".
On stretch:
wooledg:~$ ip -s link eth0
Command "eth0" is unknown, try "ip link help".
wooledg:~$ ip -s link dev eth0
Command "dev" is unknown, try "ip link help".
wooledg:~$ ip link help
[... enormous BNF dump, entirely missing -s, or any reference whatsoever
to the fact that you can stick options between "ip" and "link" ...]
wooledg:~$ ip -s link show eth0
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP
mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether a0:8c:fd:c3:89:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast
380719013 1442490 0 0 0 4731
TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns
57971257 614586 0 0 0 0
Aha!
(Sadly, this is my *typical* experience with the ip command -- trying
random things until one of them works, because the documentation
is impenetrable, and the syntax barely guessable, and certainly not
predictable.)
