gpppkill 1.0.3 review

gpppkill is a program for Linux that ends a ppp connection if it doesn't receive a minimal amount of bytes during certain time. g

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 59K Developer: Oliver Schulze L.

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gpppkill is a program for Linux that ends a ppp connection if it doesn't receive a minimal amount of bytes during certain time.

gpppkill is a program for Linux that terminates the ppp connection if:

it not receive a minimal amount of bytes during a certain amount of time.
the online time reaches the maximum time defined.

It show a graph with the incoming/outgoing bytes/s and some link statistic.It is written in C++ and uses the GTK+ X11 toolkit.

Here are some key features of "gpppkill":
Graph:

Shows a bar plot according to the amount of bytes received per second.
Shows a bar plot according to the amount of bytes sended per second.
Shows a bar plot according to the amount of bytes sended/received per second.

Statistics:

bytes received per second.
bytes sent per second.
total of bytes sent.
total of byte received.
Average of 'bytes in' in the last minute (KB/min)
Average of 'bytes out' in the last minute (KB/min)
Average of 'total bytes in' (Total_Kbytes_in/uptime)
Average of 'total bytes out' (Total_Kbytes_out/uptime)

pppkill Options:

idletime: terminate the ppp connection if it does not receive a minimal amount of bytes during a certain amount of time.
onlinetime: terminate the ppp connection if it reaches the maximal online time limit.

Information of the ppp connection:

number of process ID (PID).
name of the interface.
uptime of the connection.

Status Bar

In replacement of quickmessage window.

Pop-Up menu (right button of mouse to activate).
Possibility of hiding the modules that are not wanted to see.
Detects all the running pppd and let you choose which to kill.
Save the preferences to ~/.gpppkillrc. Including the window position.
You can specify the width of the bars in the bar plot(command line option).
warntime: gpppkill will warn you when it is trying to kill the pppd.

Requirements:
glib 1.2.10

What's New in This Release:
Use of the ESC key as the equivalent of closing the warning window.
When you see the (warning) window before gpppkill ends the link, the default button now is "Restart" and not "Kill". Suggested by Ale Feltes.
First version of the equivalent of a -h (human redeable) option. Just click on Total Bytes in/out to cycle the scale(b,Kb,Mb) Suggested by Ale Feltes.
Better handling of the size of the main window