TAPSET::NETWORKING(3stap)

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✨ TAPSET::NETWORKING ✨

okay bestie, welcome to tapset::networking (that's the 3stap manual, if we're being official 💅) — the systemtap tapset page all about spying on your network device's whole little life. it's giving backstage pass to the NIC. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this whole family of probe points? it's for probing the activities of the network device. every single thing your network card does — receiving, transmitting, opening, closing, changing its MAC — we're watching. no cap. 👑

here's the full roster, babes:

  • netdev.receive — Data received from network device.

See probe::netdev.receive(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.transmit — Network device transmitting buffer

See probe::netdev.transmit(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.change_mtu — Called when the netdev MTU is changed

See probe::netdev.change_mtu(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.open — Called when the device is opened

See probe::netdev.open(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.close — Called when the device is closed

See probe::netdev.close(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.hard_transmit — Called when the devices is going to TX (hard)

See probe::netdev.hard_transmit(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.rx — Called when the device is going to receive a packet

See probe::netdev.rx(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.change_rx_flag — Called when the device RX flag will be changed

See probe::netdev.change_rx_flag(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.set_promiscuity — Called when the device enters/leaves promiscuity

See probe::netdev.set_promiscuity(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.ioctl — Called when the device suffers an IOCTL

See probe::netdev.ioctl(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.register — Called when the device is registered

See probe::netdev.register(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.unregister — Called when the device is being unregistered

See probe::netdev.unregister(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.get_stats — Called when someone asks the device statistics

See probe::netdev.get_stats(3stap) for details.

  • netdev.change_mac — Called when the netdev_name has the MAC changed

See probe::netdev.change_mac(3stap) for details.

like… fourteen probes?? the network device is literally the main character and we're just here for the plot. 🦋

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

if you wanna go deeper (and bestie, you know you do), go read these:

that's the whole page, bestie. go probe something cute. 💅✨

mwah 💋 — this was the SystemTap Tapset Reference, September 2026 edition, signing off. 🎀

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