Bug#312095: netspeed: "Always monitor a connected device, if possible" - but not lo or dummy0

[Hans Ulrich Niedermann]

Package: netspeed
Version: 0.11-1
Severity: normal


This system uses multiple types of network devices:

  dummy0
  eth0
  wlan0
  tap0

The "Always monitor a connected device, if possible" option in the
"Netspeed Preferences" dialog makes netspeed choos another interface
if one goes down. But netspeed never choses the loopback interface
"lo" on its own, which makes sense.

However, the same reasoning applies to the "dummy+" interfaces, so
dummy0 should never be chosen automatically, and the "dummy+"
interfaces should probably added to the same exception list where "lo"
already is.

And, on a related note, assigning priorities to interfaces and showing
always the interface with the highest priority which is up, might also
make sense.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.10-swsusp2-ndim-2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages netspeed depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.1-2         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.1-2         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-22    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-6         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.4-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.1-2         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.1-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.4-4         The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.4-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                1:2.12.2-1      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0       2.8.3-1         library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.1-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii  libxml2                  2.6.16-7        GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

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