forwarded 436125 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463795
thanks

On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 23:40 +0800, manphiz wrote:
> gnome-netstatus-applet currently fails to update its statistics after
> disconnection and reconnection. An investigation within the source
> revealed it was because the status determination between current and
> previous state is based on "packets" field, which, according to an
> investigation in /proc/net/dev, will be reset to 0 after reconnection,
> which in turn resulted in the status will be determined as "Idle" until
> the new "packets" data is larger than the previously saved one. Whilst
> the "bytes" field won't be reset to 0 and will continue to accumulate.
> Changing the comparison criterion to bytes-based eliminates this glitch.
> The patch is attached below.

Great! I have forwarded the bug report and your patch to the upstream
developers, but I'm not sure if gnome-netstatus is actively maintained
these days.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463795

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