Package: gnome-netstatus-applet Version: 2.28.1-1 Severity: normal User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org Usertags: kfreebsd X-Debbugs-CC: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
On kfreebsd, the gnome-netstatus-applet does not understand the way the
kernel presents network interface information. The applet icon only ever
has a stop icon on it and does not show network activity even if an
active device is selected.
Right clicking on the applet icon brings up the "Connections Properties"
window. In the "Name" drop down box are several strange entries along
with a real one on my system, 're0'. Selecting this real interface still
does not make the applet display the correct value in the "Connections
Properties" window for Status or Activity, although the Support tab
displays the correct information for Address, Broadcast and Subnet Mask.
Left clicking on the applet icon pops up a message saying:
/__\ Please contact your system administrator to resolve the
\ / following problem:
Could not find information on interface 're0' in /proc/net/dev
[ Close ]
AFAIK, the kfreebsd does not use '/proc/net/dev' for its device
statistics, its just a dummy file for Linux compatibility layer.
$ cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive| Transmit
face| bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed|
bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed
eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
lo0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
whereas netstat and ifconfig say
# netstat -b -d -f link -I eth0
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop Ibytes
Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll Drop
# netstat -b -d -f link -I re0
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop Ibytes
Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll Drop
re0 1500 <Link#1> 52:54:00:12:34:56 1020 0 0 446181
927 0 113138 888 0
# netstat -b -d -f link -I lo0
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop Ibytes
Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll Drop
lo0 16384 <Link#2> 6 0 0 504
6 0 504 0 0
# ifconfig
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
ether 52:54:0:12:34:56
inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe12:3456%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 10.0.2.15 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.2.255
nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
Regards,
Mike.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686)
Kernel: kFreeBSD 8.1-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome-netstatus-applet depends on:
ii gconf2 2.28.1-5 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gksu 2.0.2-4 graphical frontend to su
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.24.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.24.3-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc0.1 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-5 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.30.0-1 The GNOME library - runtime files
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.30.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.18-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.30.2-2 library for GNOME Panel applets
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.16-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
gnome-netstatus-applet recommends no packages.
gnome-netstatus-applet suggests no packages.
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