[systemd-devel] Additional Information for Ethernet

[Spencer Ku (古世瑜)]

Hi All,
We are developing the redfish of openbmc, and want to expose some Ethernet information through the redfish interface, like packet count, drop count. My goal is to calculate the bandwidth / drop package rate of the Ethernet. We can get those counts from Ethernet driver (/sys/class/net/{Ethernet_Name}/statistics), but as far as I know, there is no suitable d-bus to read those metrics.



My question is that: is it possible to create the new D-bus properties ( like under the /org/freedesktop/{network}/network/{Ethernet_Name}), then sync the counts to that D-Bus?

It can really help us to get the metrics easily via redfish.

The detail discussions in openbmc upstream please refer to the link: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2021-December/028422.html<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2021-December/028422.html&sa=D&usg=AOvVaw1nG5Fl8HBDVPXFLeDz5RmX>
We are willing to see any suggestions, thanks!

Sincerely,
Spencer Ku
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