Bug#484886: gnome-system-monitor: counts PPPoE traffic twice

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Package: gnome-system-monitor
Version: 2.22.1-1
Severity: normal

The "network" tab, for PPPoE users, shows the network load incorrectly.

On such systems, there are two interfaces: ppp0 and eth0. The pppoe
kernel module encapsulates PPP traffic over Ethernet (needed for
authenticating to the ISP). However, gnome-system-monitor counts both
raw and encapsulated traffic, which is wrong.

The situation gets even worse (traffic counted three times for IPv6) if
a user runs something like tspc (ipv6 tunnel) over PPPoE.

I suggest adding a user-configurable blacklist of interfaces on which
the traffic should not be counted.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6                      2.7-10        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.6.4-1+b1    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libgcc1                    1:4.3.0-5     GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4                2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.3-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a         2.16.2-1      C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit (
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.22.0-2    GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.9-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a          1:2.12.7-1    C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared
ii  libgtop2-7                 2.22.1-1      gtop system monitoring library
ii  librsvg2-2                 2.22.2-2      SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a         2.0.18-2      type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6                 4.3.0-5       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwnck22                  2.22.1-1      Window Navigator Construction Kit
ii  libxml2                    2.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper               0.3.14-16     A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor recommends:
ii  libgksu2-0                    2.0.6-1    library providing su and sudo func

-- no debconf information