Comments on: net_monitor lives again http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/ My view on technology, open-source, Linux and other cool things. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: eugeni http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17069 eugeni Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:44:44 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17069 <p>The network accounting seems to require the network interface to be restarted after initial configuration to start working. And it also seems to stop working correctly after suspend/resume. It seems to be something to do in integration between vnstat and initscripts. I'll look into it.</p> The network accounting seems to require the network interface to be restarted after initial configuration to start working. And it also seems to stop working correctly after suspend/resume. It seems to be something to do in integration between vnstat and initscripts. I’ll look into it.

]]> By: fif91 http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17062 fif91 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:16:48 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17062 <p>I am falling in love of this tool :). Excellent work. Some remarks : - For each measure in traffic statistics or interface settings areas , is it KBytes, Bytes, MBytes, GBytes :-P ? We don't really know. - The shell guess us to enable network acocunting for the interface, whereas for me the option is activated. Is thre a bug ?</p> I am falling in love of this tool :) . Excellent work. Some remarks : - For each measure in traffic statistics or interface settings areas , is it KBytes, Bytes, MBytes, GBytes :-P ? We don’t really know. - The shell guess us to enable network acocunting for the interface, whereas for me the option is activated. Is thre a bug ?

]]> By: yoho http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17059 yoho Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:47:33 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17059 <p>Excellent piece of work ! I love it !</p> Excellent piece of work ! I love it !

]]> By: eugeni http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17045 eugeni Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:12:39 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17045 <p>I think you are making a confusion between net_monitor and net_applet. Net_monitor does not puts anything to tray, net_applet is the one that stays there.</p> I think you are making a confusion between net_monitor and net_applet. Net_monitor does not puts anything to tray, net_applet is the one that stays there.

]]> By: MandrivaUser.de NEWS » Neuentwicklung des Netmonitors http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17043 MandrivaUser.de NEWS » Neuentwicklung des Netmonitors Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:17:06 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17043 <p>[...] Quelle: http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/ [...]</p> [...] Quelle: http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/ [...]

]]> By: Links 27/09/2009: Linus Torvalds Interview, Libtheora 1.1 Released | Boycott Novell http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17041 Links 27/09/2009: Linus Torvalds Interview, Libtheora 1.1 Released | Boycott Novell Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:35:06 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17041 <p>[...] net_monitor lives again Working on Mandriva network tools, I looked on one of the most essential ones the network monitor (net_monitor). It was introduced a couple of releases before, and was mostly doing its job. However, it has a number of flaws and lack of features that motivated us to look closer at it. [...]</p> [...] net_monitor lives again Working on Mandriva network tools, I looked on one of the most essential ones the network monitor (net_monitor). It was introduced a couple of releases before, and was mostly doing its job. However, it has a number of flaws and lack of features that motivated us to look closer at it. [...]

]]> By: hajma http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17040 hajma Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:30:45 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17040 <p>Hi, it's great to see this old bugger getting some developer love! One of the most annoying things of the current one is the slow show-up time - time from clicking the taskbar icon to actually getting the graphs, I hope this will improve too. I'll give it a try when I have some time.</p> Hi, it’s great to see this old bugger getting some developer love! One of the most annoying things of the current one is the slow show-up time – time from clicking the taskbar icon to actually getting the graphs, I hope this will improve too. I’ll give it a try when I have some time.

]]> By: Kevin Bulgrien http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17039 Kevin Bulgrien Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:03:19 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17039 <p>net_monitor <em>is</em> the reason 2009.0 (both new and updated) on a Core2 DUO ABIT 64-bit system locks up so hard you have to power cycle. It was very hard to find, and most unfortunate that Mandriva installs it to the systray by default. The switch to the newer KDE not that long ago re-installed it to all the desktops, and caused hours of grief yet again because I had forgotten having to hunt it down and turn it off. The new features will not do this system any good.</p> net_monitor is the reason 2009.0 (both new and updated) on a Core2 DUO ABIT 64-bit system locks up so hard you have to power cycle. It was very hard to find, and most unfortunate that Mandriva installs it to the systray by default. The switch to the newer KDE not that long ago re-installed it to all the desktops, and caused hours of grief yet again because I had forgotten having to hunt it down and turn it off. The new features will not do this system any good.

]]> By: eugeni http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17038 eugeni Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:33:29 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17038 <p>Great, many thanks for the suggestions! I'll try to add them to the next version.</p> <p>Thanks!</p> Great, many thanks for the suggestions! I’ll try to add them to the next version.

Thanks!

]]> By: FACORAT Fabrice http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17035 FACORAT Fabrice Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:25:57 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17035 <p>Some remarks :</p> <ul> <li><p>you should show the interface icon before the interface name in the tab. This allow to identify the interface. Sorry, but a normal user don't know the difference between eth0 and wlan0. On top of that some wireless interface are named ethx.</p></li> <li><p>some interface should be blacklisted ( wmaster*, vboxnet ?, vmnet ?, ... )</p></li> <li><p>you should be able to preselect an interface ( net_monitor --if=eth0 ). This allow to start net_monitor for a predefined interface</p></li> <li><p>a button should be add directly in net_monitor eventually to enable accounting ( except if this will require specific mandriva features ).</p></li> <li><p>for a wireless interface, i'm also interested in seeing the wireless strength</p></li> <li><p>in the interface statistics pane, the fact to use non aligned label look ugly and make it difficult to flow the right line. Maybe a view with a table with cells and border would be more appropriate. Or else, please aligned the text and take into account RTL ( left aligned for french/english/..., right aligned for hebrew/arabic/... )</p></li> <li><p>IMHO to display the different views of the accounting window, you'd better use a tab interface or a comboxbox at the top, instead of radio buttons at the bottom.</p></li> </ul> <ul> <li>very nice graph and graph headers</li> </ul> Some remarks :

  • you should show the interface icon before the interface name in the tab. This allow to identify the interface. Sorry, but a normal user don’t know the difference between eth0 and wlan0. On top of that some wireless interface are named ethx.

  • some interface should be blacklisted ( wmaster*, vboxnet ?, vmnet ?, … )

  • you should be able to preselect an interface ( net_monitor –if=eth0 ). This allow to start net_monitor for a predefined interface

  • a button should be add directly in net_monitor eventually to enable accounting ( except if this will require specific mandriva features ).

  • for a wireless interface, i’m also interested in seeing the wireless strength

  • in the interface statistics pane, the fact to use non aligned label look ugly and make it difficult to flow the right line. Maybe a view with a table with cells and border would be more appropriate. Or else, please aligned the text and take into account RTL ( left aligned for french/english/…, right aligned for hebrew/arabic/… )

  • IMHO to display the different views of the accounting window, you’d better use a tab interface or a comboxbox at the top, instead of radio buttons at the bottom.

  • very nice graph and graph headers
]]> By: eugeni http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17034 eugeni Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:51:32 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17034 <p>Excellent idea, I added it to TODO. All this information is available from /proc (/proc/net/wireless, /proc/net/routes) and from /etc/resolv.conf.</p> Excellent idea, I added it to TODO. All this information is available from /proc (/proc/net/wireless, /proc/net/routes) and from /etc/resolv.conf.

]]> By: aapgorilla http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17033 aapgorilla Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:47:38 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17033 <p>oh and SSID and link level too for wireless</p> oh and SSID and link level too for wireless

]]> By: aapgorilla http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/09/25/net_monitor-lives-again/comment-page-1/#comment-17032 aapgorilla Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:46:13 +0000 http://dodonov.net/blog/?p=581#comment-17032 <p>Great work. It would also be nice to have the dns server and gateway in the info (maybe even as a clickable link for easy access to your router)</p> Great work. It would also be nice to have the dns server and gateway in the info (maybe even as a clickable link for easy access to your router)

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