Bugzilla – Bug 116929
c/kinternet don't give status of no-user-control interfaces
Last modified: 2005-09-14 09:29:33 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.
Old feature request. The sysadmin can use ifstatus to query the status. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41591 ***