wmppp - Graphically monitor the average PPP load
wmppp.app displays a dynamic representation of the load on
the PPP line on a 64x64 miniwindow. It also starts and stops the connection
and displays the time enlapsed since the it came up. The traffic on the
interface is also monitored.
- -display
<display name>
- name of display to use
- -geometry
+XPOS+YPOS
- initial window position
- -t
- sets the on-line timer to display MM:SS instead of the default HH:MM.
- -u <update
rate>
- sets the frequency, in seconds, for updates to the display. Valid range is
1-10, default value is 5.
- -i <device>
- choose the net device (ppp1, ippp0, etc.) to monitor. (Note that this
feature is EXPERIMENTAL and should be used with caution. Bug reports are
welcomed.)
- -speed <cmd>
- command to report connection speed
- -start <cmd>
- command to connect
- -stop <cmd>
- command to disconnect
- -ifdown <cmd>
- command to redial
- -stampfile <path>
- file used to calculate uptime
- -h
- displays a command line summary
- -v
- displays the version number.
The configuration file (see below) may contain any of the
following key-value pairs. The format is key: value. Note that these
values will be overwritten by the corresponding command line options.
- start
- The program that starts the connection
- stop
- The program that stops the connection
- speed
- This program reports the speed of the connection. This program should
output <speed>, that is, a number is expected and not
the whole
- ifdown
- This program is run if the line goes down, and the stop program
hasn't been run. (Redial program)
- stampfile
- The modification time of this file is used to calculate the amount of time
the connection has been up. Something like touch <stampfile>
should be run for this to work.
- /var/run/wmppp.ppp0
- this is the stamp file use to determine the amount of time enlapsed since
the connection came up. This file should be managed by the ip-up and
ip-down scripts. On Debian systems, /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/00wmppp
creates the file, and /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/00wmppp removes it.
- /etc/wmppprc
- System wide defaults
- $HOME/.wmppprc
- User defined settings
- /etc/wmppprc.fixed
- System wide fixed options, this overrides the user settings
wmppp.app was written by Martijn Pieterse
<pieterse@xs4all.nl> and Antoine Nulle
<warp@xs4all.nl>, and it's based on work by Beat Christen
<bchriste@iiic.ethz.ch> (asclock) and Michael Callahan
<callahan@maths.ox.ac.uk>, Al Longyear
longyear@netcom.com and Paul Mackerras
<Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au> (pppstats).
Email regarding wmppp should be sent to
wmaker-dev@lists.windowmaker.org.
This manpage was written by Marcelo Magallon
<mmagallo@debian.org for the Debian Project