NAME¶
wmppp - Graphically monitor the average PPP load
SYNOPSIS¶
wmppp [
-display <display name>] [
-t]
[
-u <update rate>] [
-i <device>]
[
-h] [
-v]
DESCRIPTION¶
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.
OPTIONS¶
- -display <display name>
- name of display to use
- -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.)
- -h
- displays a command line summary
- -v
- displays the version number.
CONFIGURATION¶
The configuration file (see below) may contain any of the following key-value
pairs. The format is
key: value.
- 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.
FILES¶
- /var/run/wmppp.ppp0
- this is the stamp file use to determine the ammount 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
AUTHORS¶
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
dockapps@windowmaker.kimitsu.com.
This manpage was written by
Marcelo Magallon
<mmagallo@debian.org for the
Debian Project
SEE ALSO¶
pppd(8),
pppstats(8),
plog(1),
pon(1),
poff(1)