LAN-stat applet

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 17:41, Zahemszky Gábor wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've found, that on GNOME 2.2, the system monitoring applett cannot correctly
> handle the machine's lan interfaces.
> 
> 1) I cannot configure what interface(s) I'd like to watch.  It has slip /plip /
> ethernet /other .  Maybe it's OK, on linux, which has a generic eth0 interface,
> but it's incorrect in *BSD/Solaris/etc, which has different interface names.
> (As I has a PPPoE connection, I have a tun0 on my ed0 card, so it has to
> be in the other section.  But doesn't work that way either.)

This is on the list of known items.  I'm happy to accept any patches for
this.

> 
> 2) I'd like a different kind of net-stat-applet (eg, such a monitoring
> tool, as I can find on IceWM).  I can configure the interface, and
> different colors show different things, eg: red: incoming, blue: outgoing,
> or the like.
> 
> So are there anybody, who knows such a toy?  (No, I don't want gkrellm2).
> Only a little 10 pixel wide window in GNOME's panel.  Or some trick, to
> teach that GNOME-applett, to watch another netif (without recompiling) ?

There's always net/netspeed_applet that will work on FreeBSD.

Joe

> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Zahy < Gabor at Zahemszky dot HU >
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