Netload

This plugin displays the current load of the network interfaces of your choice in the panel. It currently works on Linux, *BSD, Sun Solaris, HP_UX and MacOS X.

Simply add to the panel and set network device (e.g. “eth0” for cable or “wlan0” for wireless).

• Fix compatibility with Xfce 4.7+, fixing bug #6466
• Translated in 23 more languages, for a total of 36, 32 of which are fully translations
• Re-license under GPL2 or later
• Add support for GNU/kFreeBSD, fixing bug #3043
• Add support for DragonFly BSD, fixing bug #1456
• Add a Unique icon, Fixing bug #6864
• Upgrade from GtkTooltips to GtkTooltip, fixing bug #5177
• Fix bar colors for some theme engines, fixing bug #1889
• Fix buffer overflow, fixin bug #6026
• Fix sizes to fit better in the panel, and with other plugins
• Build fixes for compatibility with different version of libtool
• Use xfce titled dialog for the options
• Don't report errors if the interface has no IP address yet, fixing bug #1158

• l10n: Updated English (United Kingdom) (en_GB) translation to 100% (2012/04/28 01:55)
• l10n: Updated Chinese (China) (zh_CN) translation to 100% (2012/04/20 14:02)
• l10n: Updated Japanese (ja) translation to 100% (2012/04/19 18:41)
• l10n: Updated Turkish (tr) translation to 90% (2012/04/15 21:21)
• l10n: Updated Turkish (tr) translation to 63% (2012/04/15 21:20)

Bugs should be reported to the Xfce bug tracking system.

• [Bug 8842] Plugin takes up too much space
• [Bug 8242] add graphing
• [Bug 7761] entering device results in error
• [Bug 3880] Be more intelligent about interfaces
• [Bug 7481] no longer build on BSD (os.h:125:28: error: net/ppp_defs.h: No such file or directory)
• [Bug 7431] AUTO interface selection
• [Bug 3362] Adapt location for laptops: either wireless or wire or hidden

The normal (and best) way to get this plugin is to use the package manager or port system of your operating system.

If it isn't available there, or if you want a different version, you can download it in source form from http://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-netload-plugin/.

http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-netload-plugin/