[Raspbian-devel] Is it possible to track the activity related to a Pi's Ethernet interface?

[ken]

On 06/04/2018 05:19 AM, John W. Kitz wrote:
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> Hi,
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> It appears to be possible to have one of the onboard LEDs or GPIO pins
> track activity related to a Raspberry Pi's hardware, such its keyboard
> or microSD interface, another GPIO pin, CPU, Wifi or Bluetooth.
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> Is it technically feasible to track the activity related to a Pi's
> Ethernet interface?
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> If yes, are there any plans to include changes required to make that
> possible in some future release?
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> Regards, Jk.
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A lot depends upon what is meant by 'related activity', but there are
already a lot of different utilities/apps for looking at the ethernet
interface.