From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: ibmonitor is an interactive bandwidth monitor which runs on the linux console. It currently features in the stable RPM list of Fedora extras. I really think we should include it in the main Fedora tree as its a very minimal useful tool for bandwidth monitoring. More aligned to the dektop user. Its features can be heavily expanded while still catering to the desktop user. Like, saving the data in rrds for nifty looking graphs, etc. Please consider my request, and I would like to contribute my maintaing the package if it gets included in the main release. Thanks Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. ibmonitor is not in the rpm list 2. 3. Additional info: See more about ibmonitor at http://ibmonitor.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/ibmonitor
There is already iptraf, which handles some of this.
Yes. I'm very much aware of iptraf. It is indeed a very useful tool, but sometimes its overkill. I've got much feedback from people who say how ibmonitor is simple yet effective. Please note that i'm keeping the casual desktop user in mind here, and not the network administrator. Looks wise, If you would check the screenshots out, ibmonitor is definitely more appealing to the untrained eye than iptraf. All said and done, I would respect Fedora's decision.
Generally, the desktop group frowns upon terminal apps; there is already a network status applet that does some bandwidth things as well.
Thanks for your comments. Can you suggest some way out? Like contacting the desktop team, or maybe trying to merge ibmonitor into some existing package which handles network related functions.
Well, you can bring it up on fedora-devel-list for opinions, certainly.