How can I access netstat-like Ethernet statistics from a Windows program

Question

How can I access Ethernet statistics from C/C++ code like netstat -e?

Interface Statistics

                       Received            Sent
         


        

Answer 1

A good place to start for network statistics would be the GetIpStatistics call in the Windows IPHelper functions.

There are a couple of other approaches that are possibly more portable:-

• SNMP. Requires SNMP to be enabled on the computer, but can obviously be used to retrieve statistics for remote computers also.
• Pipe the output of 'netstat' into your application, and unpick the values from the text.