Getting an interfaces `valid_lft` programmatically
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iproute2 can give back an interface's
valid_lft
which corresponds to the dhcp lease time left. See a truncated example output hereafter:
1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
...
2: enp0s1: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
...
valid_lft 82933sec preferred_lft 82933sec
...
I'd like to get this from preferably Golang without actually calling ip address
. Though I realise ip route has a json output, I still much prefer to interact with, for example:
- a library which allows me access to this counter
- a path in /sys or /proc which provides access to this counter
- something else?
The goal is to expose the valid_lft counter as a metric which can be scraped by something like Prometheus. I'm amazed this is not available yet.
Asked by hbogert
(759 rep)
Aug 17, 2023, 06:52 PM