Bug 116929

Summary: c/kinternet don't give status of no-user-control interfaces
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Volker Kuhlmann <bugz57>
Component: KDEAssignee: Arvin Schnell <aschnell>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: RC 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Volker Kuhlmann 2005-09-14 08:50:29 UTC 
For a public-access internet terminal it's impossible to explain to everyone 
to "click this icon to connect", you're wasting your time. so, 
user-control=no. And obviously dial-on-demand. In this case, [ck]internet 
don't give an interface status (disconnected, connecting, ...) at all, not 
even for root. It would be very handy if the panel icon showed that data is 
actually being transferred and the interface is indeed up. 
 
For the sysadmin it's actually also difficult to find out the connection 
status, as neither IP number nor routing table change when the interface 
disconnects. No change from ifconfig either.
Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-09-14 09:29:33 UTC 
Old feature request.

The sysadmin can use ifstatus to query the status.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41591 ***