gkrellm-multiping-mirror/README

GKrellM Multiping Plugin
Author:             Jindrich Makovicka
Homepage:           http://kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz/~makovick/gkrellm/

Multiping plugin can send pings to several hosts at once and display
thir round trip time and host status - it indicates lossless
connection, packet loss and unreachable host with green, red or dark
LED lights.

Installation:

    make
    make install (as root)

By default, the plugin is installed into
/usr/local/lib/gkrellm2/plugins . if you want to change it, modify the
INSTALLDIR variable in the Makefile.

--- SECURITY WARNING ---

Multiping needs to open a raw socket for sending and receiving of the
ICMP packets. For this reason, it consists of two parts - GKrellM
plugin with normal privileges, and helper application (pinger), which
is based on the code of linux "ping" and which starts with superuser
privileges. However, these privileges are dropped immediately, so even
in the case of a security flaw in the code, the attacker can gain at
most the access to the raw socket and the should not be able to
compromise the system.

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GKrellM Multiping Plugin is copyright (c) 2005 Jindrich Makovicka

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2   
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.