autoselection of the active device

[Michael Hanson]

On a a system with multiple net connections (i.e. laptop with built in and
wireless card), the net monitor applet should discover which device is active
and report stats on that device. Curently, the applet must be told manually
which device to monitor.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165925: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165925

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what's happening exactly ? what interfaces do you have, which ones are
configured and which one is selected by the applet ?

[Michael Hanson (mhanson)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> what's happening exactly ? what interfaces do you have, which ones are
> configured and which one is selected by the applet ?

Ok, I have eth0 and eth1. eth0 is my on board nic. eth1 is my wireless pcmcia
card, used only on occasion. Both eth devices are configured as dhdp clients.

Now, the applet runs at startup and I have told it to look at eth0 to report
usage on. Works fine. However, if later I boot and use only eth1 (pcmcia), the
applet will stay configured to eth0 rather than intelligently seeing that only
eth1 is active.

regards

mike

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've opened a bug upstream about this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165925

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

*** Bug 12510 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***