Thomas Haller wrote:
On Tue, 2021-07-20 at 16:26 -0400, David H Durgee via networkmanager- list wrote:How can I get traffic statistics by network connection? Is there a way to retrieve this using nmcli? Is there another tool that will do so?I have looked around and the tools I see work at the interface level, not at the connection level. I am using nmcli 1.22.18 as distributed with linux mint 20.1 x64 here.Ui, a "connection" is a profile, that is a bunch of settings for configuring a network interface. Basically, see the lower-case keys in `nmcli connection show "$PROFILE". A profile has no traffic statstics, nor would it make sense. Well, that's not entirely correct and I guess it might make some sense to collect statistics associated with a profile. NM associates additional information to prfiles with "connection.timestamp" and "wifi.seen-bssids" properties and there are also the lease files under /var/lib/NetworkManager. But these are exceptions, usually a profile is just the settings that the user configured. In particular traffic statistics are not tracked or associated with connection profiles in NetworkManager (yet). On D-Bus, $ busctl -j call org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager GetManagedObjects you see the "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Statistics" interface (which is per-interface). That exposes the RX/TX bytes. That is basically the same as kernel reports via netlink API. However, the values are stale unless you RefreshRateMs to a positive value (which causes NM to periodically poll the statistics from kernel). There is no further magic with "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Statistics". You could just as well read the information via netlink. These statistics are ad-hoc, and will be lost after reboot (or when the interface dispears). I guess you could build an interesting tool for that. I am not aware that one exists. However, the API was added by Ubuntu developers, and presumably the do have a use for it and a tool. best, Thomas
My reason for asking about this was as a means of confirming proper operation of a strongswan VPN. When activated this VPN does not create a tun interface as the VPN I was previously using did. I had hoped to find some way to confirm that the traffic is indeed being routed via the VPN as opposed to going directly over the WiFi connection even when the VPN is active.
Perhaps I need to take another approach. How difficult would it be for me to modify the connection to add a tun interface? I see no way to specify this in the GUI, but inspecting the lapsed VPN connection shows a "dev=tun" statement in the VPN section of its nmconnection file. Would manually adding such a statement to the strongswan VPN nmconnection file be sufficient? Are other additional statements required that are not present by default?
Dave
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