Statistics Handling

The C Statistics API provides the following functions for statistics handling:

• ba_get_class_stats() returns statistics for a given class of network traffic for a given interface. The information returned includes:

  • Number of packets sent

  • Number of bytes sent

  • Number of attempts made to borrow bandwidth

  • Number of packets dropped

  • Number of bytes dropped

• ba_reset_class_stats() is used to reset the statistics information for a given class and all its children. The process calling ba_reset_class_stats() must be privileged.

• ba_get_flow_stats() returns flow level statistics for the specified class.