Roaring Penguin PPPoE Kontrol

Roaring Penguin PPPoE Kontrol is a little tool that docks to the KDE3 system tray.

It provides you with a simple contextmenu, including entries to connect to your provider, disconnect again and get your current dynamic IP address, assigned to you by your provider. The IP can also be copied to the clipboard.

Active traffic is visualized by a glowing animation of the tray icon.

To use this tool you'll need:

• properly configured Roaring Penguin PPPoE utils
• properly configured sudo
• bash 2.x (or compatible)
• net-tools (provides ifconfig)
• textutils (provides "cut")
• grep

An example /etc/sudoers can be downloaded here.
You'll need this file to use the tool with non-root users.

Screenshots

While you are not connected, the panel icon looks like this.

RPPPPoEK's popup menu.

This is the dialog that shows your current dynamic IP address. You can copy it to the clipboard, too.

After connecting successfully, the panel icon will change like this.

Download Roaring Penguin PPPoE Kontrol

This is the current version:

Roaring Penguin PPPoE Kontrol 0.40

See the entry on KDE-Apps.org. Maybe you'll find a package for your distro there.

You can grab the previous versions here:

Roaring Penguin PPPoE Kontrol 0.34
Roaring Penguin PPPoE Kontrol 0.33

If anyone wants to provide binary packages, you can send them to me.