The GNOME Netstatus package contains a panel applet that monitors network interfaces. It provides indicators for ingoing and outgoing data, packets received and transmitted, and information about the network interface itself such as IP information and Ethernet address.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-netstatus/2.6/gnome-netstatus-2.6.1.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-netstatus/2.6/gnome-netstatus-2.6.1.tar.bz2
Download size: 418 KB
Estimated Disk space required: 6.1 MB
Estimated build time: 0.12 SBU
Install GNOME Netstatus by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \
--libexecdir=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0`/sbin \
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome --localstatedir=/var/lib &&
make &&
make install
--libexecdir=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0`/sbin: This switch puts libexec files in $GNOME_PREFIX/sbin instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/libexec.
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome: This switch puts configuration files in /etc/gnome instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc.
--localstatedir=/var/lib: This switch puts ScrollKeeper files in /var/lib/scrollkeeper instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper.
The GNOME Netstatus package contains gnome-netstatus-applet.