Modem light's won't show traffic

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:59:41AM -0300, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:47:51PM -0300, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>I'd like to know how to setup the modemlights applet and/or ifup|ifdown 
> >>scripts so an _ordinary_ user (i.e. not root) can have the traffic shown 
> >>in the applet.
> >>
> >>[ ... snip ... ]
> >
> >What I would do is make ifup and ifdown SUID root. That works for me.
> 
> Sorry, It doesn't make any difference.
> Please, note that I CAN start up / shutdown de interface as a normal 
> user, the problem is that the lights don't flash, and the traffic is not 
> shown.
> I was googling for a while, and I've found plenty of suggestions about 
> seting the correct LCK.. file, suid ifup/ifdown, etc., but all of them 
> have to do with the hability to start/stop the service, which works 
> absolutely fine for me.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Mariano
First I thought that my modem lights was doing 
what you describe. That is the top window stays at zero most of the time.
But if you generate network traffic you will see that the register
changes giving non-zero values. For example when typing this mail the
register is at zero when I am not typing. Are you sure this is not the
behavior that you are seeing?
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