Mandriva: net_monitor lives again
Working on Mandriva network tools, I looked on one of the most essential ones the network monitor (net_monitor). It was introduced a couple of releases before, and was mostly doing its job. However, it has a number of flaws and lack of features that motivated us to look closer at it.
The net_monitor currently used in all Mandriva versions is written in perl, is using internal drakx-net api (and is, therefore, only usable on Mandriva), and also have some issues such as memory leaks and non-usual interface. After a few thoughts and discussions we came to conclusion that it would be more adequate to project and rewrite it from scratch, turning it more modular, expansible and focused on common use cases.
Initially, I thought on using perl to write it, so it would still be part of drakx-net suite.
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