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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: feature idea - feedback wanted
From:       Alex Zepeda <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date:       1999-02-13 19:55:18
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On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, rupert THURNER wrote:

> KPPP already has ALL of the features you mentioned, and maybe much
> more. I said maybe. but the problem is: - you have permanent
> connections, volume-based
>   (NO kppp, and no easy to get information like in kppp)
> - dial-up ... here kppp does its job

Well I can get some (all?) of that information from netstat -i here..

zippy:~#netstat -i
Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs Coll
lp0*  1500  <Link>                               0     0        0     0    0
tun0  1500  <Link>                           37014     0    42027     0    0
tun0  1500  no-net.wenet. pm3-25.ppp.wene    37014     0    42027     0    0
ppp0* 1500  <Link>                               0     0        0     0    0
lo0   16384 <Link>                           36821     0    36821     0    0
lo0   16384 127           localhost          36821     0    36821     0    0

(* represents down links apparently..)

And even if you can't do that, perhaps pinging a known good address such
as the machine's reported IP (not 127.0.0.1) would tell you if the
network is up...

- alex

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