Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME Nettool for GNOME 2.8

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 10:59 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 18:14 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > We would like to propose GNOME Nettool for inclusion in the GNOME 2.8
> > desktop release.
> > 
> > GNOME Nettool is an application that provides GUI access to many
> > networking command line tools, like ping, traceroute, netstat, finger,
> > whois, ifconfig. It was originally based on the similar tool that is
> > available in Mac OS X, but has since been greatly improved and is now a
> > much better tool than the one from Apple.
> 
> Personally, I think this is very useful stuff for an administrator,
> network engineer, or developer. But I don't think it helps users with
> their goals.
> 
> Also, can it be used to start/stop network connections, or does it just
> query ifconfig?
> 
it just queries, it's a user-space app, so no access to change the
system configuration.

cheers