Contributor puxkggn on Network Manager
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A valuable network troubleshooting dialog
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Written by RyanFelder the 17 May 12 at 15:30.
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As a network engineer, I see reports from my own technical support department that miss some basic, valuable troubleshooting steps.
Network diagnostic tools in Ubuntu are intimidating and unintuitive for less technical users.
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User not able to get/see packet send /receive infromation for network coonected.
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Written by benoyanthony the 2 Jun 12 at 11:06.
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Normal user unable to monitor date send received information through network manager. As user pay cost to providers for their data plan, it whould be better if they can know how many data is being send and recceived for each session after connection to particular network connection.
There are scripted ways to do this, but via GUI would be wonderful.
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Ubuntu should warn if your IP is in conflict
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Written by lotif the 20 Aug 10 at 19:51.
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Right now, if you manually set an IP in Ubuntu and if this IP is already registered in your network, or if somebody try to pick your IP by mistake or something, Ubuntu simply does nothing and let you without internet and without knowing what's going on. That's not right.
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Terminal interface for NetworkManager
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Written by komputes the 20 Jul 11 at 16:58.
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The problem:
Users need a simple way to connect to a wireless network from the command line.
iwconfig is too difficult for average human beings. Using and understanding wpa-supplicant adds to the confusion.
The process of connecting to a wireless network from the command line takes a long time time.
Use case: Steve can't connect to his wireless network from recovery mode since he does not have a wired connection available, "netroot" recovery script only works on ethernet. "dpkg" recovery script is unable to do any updates.
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Implement way of telling user that there is a connection but no internet
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Written by tancrackers the 4 Dec 11 at 21:00.
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Please implement a method of telling the user that there is a wireless connection but not internet like Windows 7 does.
Sometimes my router goes nuts and will give me a wireless connection but I cannot connect to the internet.
All I have to do is unplug the router and plug it back in.
Though, on Ubuntu I only know when I try to go online and my homepages fails to load.
On Windows 7, the wireless icon in the taskbar shows the bars that represent the connection, but there is a yellow "caution" arrow on the wireless icon followed by a message that there is no internet connection.
Can you please implement something similar to this in Ubuntu so I can know right after log in that it is my router failing as opposed to something else?
Thank you!
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Allow domain names to be used in Network Manager GUI routes
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Written by nhatter the 23 Mar 11 at 01:14.
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If you go to IPv4/v6 settings, Routes... then click Add you can enter different routes for the interface to take.
You will notice that you cannot enter domain names here. The workaround at the moment is to use /sbin/route add -host ... in the terminal. I believe the GUI acts as an interface for route anyway.
It would be more user-friendly and convenient if we could enter domains here as well as IPs.
Example: you might want to route all traffic to example.com via a VPN connection. To do that in the GUI, you would have to do a DNS lookup on the example.com to get the IP, then copy that in. It makes managing routes a bit of a nightmare as you forget which IPs are for which domains.
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show numeric upload and download rate in panel network graph
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Written by adse the 17 Apr 11 at 13:25.
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if you add the system monitor to your gnome panel in ubuntu 10.10 you can check "network" as a monitored resource.
but it's kind a hard to tell what your actual download/upload rate is since the traffic is only shown graph-wise. hovering the graph will give you a the current traffic only on a punctual basis.
i would very much like to see continuously updated download and upload rates printed at the bottom of the mini network graph in addition to the current graph (see screen shot).
http://img708.imageshack.us/i/brainstormnetgraphpanel.png/
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To make mobile broadband simpler
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Written by dirty_dillon the 12 May 11 at 07:47.
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With pre-paid mobile broadband Software is usually included for 'windows' that allows you to recharge the credit and also view the remaining credit on the dongle. Without having to log into and navigate through often quite complex telecommunications websites.
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PPPoE Support for IPv6
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Written by cartoonaki the 11 Apr 11 at 04:54.
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i know on network manager on the DSL PPPoE is not Support ipv6 to support on ISP's this is my problem
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