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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:42:57 -0400, Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> said:

> I was wondering if anyone had thought of implementing the above ioctl. Right 
> now from what I can tell, (from wmnet, and netstat) all stats for a network 
> device are kvm_read out of the kernel.

These applications should use sysctl instead.  All of the information
is available through the interface mib.

-GAWollman


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