I want to upgrade my relatively elderly machine ( dual 233 Mhz pentiums) but it will probably mean that I won't be able to use my ISA modem as there are no ISA slots on modern boards. I want to avoid using an external modem.
So I'm thinking of using an even older machine as a firewall/gateway into which I can fit my modem and a network card and then connect to the internet via that.
I am running KDE 1.something and use a little utility called kpppload which displays a small window showing transfer rates in figures and as a graph continuously updated. I would feel lost without this as, if transfers stop, this little window tells me at a glance that rates are down to zero and it gives an indication if transfer rates are slower than they should be.
If I set up this gateway as proposed it will not have X and therefore no little kpppload window.
Is there any way of displaying data transfer rates on a standard console in a similar fashion (the graph is not essential) ?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Barry Samuels
on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:48:32PM +0000, bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
If I set up this gateway as proposed it will not have X and therefore no little kpppload window.
Is there any way of displaying data transfer rates on a standard console in a similar fashion (the graph is not essential) ?
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/ and http://panic.eu.org/linux/cban/ seem to do this, although not quite in the same way as kpppload, and also not as simple.
On 16-Nov-01 bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
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If I set up this gateway as proposed it will not have X and therefore no little kpppload window.
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You could use a remote X session making use of X being network transparent.
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Is there any way of displaying data transfer rates on a standard console in a similar fashion (the graph is not essential) ?
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Bound to be I recomend searching freshmeat, please post your results as I will be moveing to Oxford and will have my full network up again soon, and so will have a gate way box also, and this was a slight anoyance.
Regards
Owen Synge
Date: 16-Nov-01 Time: 18:12:41
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:48:32PM +0000, bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
If I set up this gateway as proposed it will not have X and therefore no little kpppload window.
Is there any way of displaying data transfer rates on a standard console in a similar fashion (the graph is not essential) ?
There is a program called masqdialer (http://cpwright.com/mserver/) which allows machines on your network to bring up and down the dialup link on the gateway. The server that runs on the gateway does not need X, and there are graphical clients for the other machines on the network for several platforms, including a KDE one which appears to have a load graph. (http://www.stephan.co.uk/kmasqdialer/)
Thanks to those who offered suggestions. There were some very useful snippets.
I am now also considering Plan B. This would be to get a mainboard without any ISA slots and use a PCMCIA modem with appropriate PC adapter. I have a PCMCIA modem for my laptop and that works very well under Linux.
Can anyone think of any diadvantages with this plan?
Barry Samuels
I want to upgrade my relatively elderly machine ( dual 233 Mhz pentiums) but it will probably mean that I won't be able to use my ISA modem as there are no ISA slots on modern boards. I want to avoid using an external modem.
So I'm thinking of using an even older machine as a firewall/gateway into which I can fit my modem and a network card and then connect to the internet via that.
I am running KDE 1.something and use a little utility called kpppload which displays a small window showing transfer rates in figures and as a graph continuously updated. I would feel lost without this as, if transfers stop, this little window tells me at a glance that rates are down to zero and it gives an indication if transfer rates are slower than they should be.
If I set up this gateway as proposed it will not have X and therefore no little kpppload window.
Is there any way of displaying data transfer rates on a standard console in a similar fashion (the graph is not essential) ?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Barry Samuels
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