KNetworkConf 0.5 - A KDE application to confiure TCP/IP settings.
Juan Luis Baptiste M. <juan.baptiste@kdemail.net>
Colombia, 2003 - 2004
http://www.merlinux.org/knetworkconf/

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1. Introduction
KNetworkConf is a KDE application to configure TCP/IP settings 
on a Linux machine. I developed it because I couldn't find any 
application to configure TCP/IP settings from within KDE, and I 
think this is a "must have" app for a serious Desktop Enviroment 
like KDE. 

KNetworkConf features:

* Configure installed network devices (you can't add new ones for now) 
in basic and advanced mode (ie. don't auto configure broadcast and 
netmask values). 
* Configure the default gateway and gateway device. 
* Configure host and domain names. 
* Add/remove DNS servers (/etc/resolv.conf). 
* Add/Remove known Hosts (/etc/hosts). 

The current version is a standalone application, but the idea is to make 
it a KDE Control Center module and a KApplet to have a fast access to it 
from the KDE panel. 

KNetworkConf works with the following platforms:

- Red Hat 8,9
- Mandrake 9,9.1,9.2
- SuSE 7 (needs a little update :-))
- Debian Woody, Sarge 
- PLD Linux  
- TurboLinux 

This is possible thanks to the Gnome System Tools (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/index.html).
GST are a number of configuration tools for Gnome. Those tools are 
divided in frontends and backends. The backends are made in perl 
and communicate with the frontends via a xml file.

KNetworkConf uses Gnome System Tools network backend to find out the network 
info in all those different platforms. If you want to see  KNetworkConf 
working in other platforms like Slackware, FreeBSD, etc, don't ask me, ask 
GST team, as I'm only doing a GUI frontend for their network backend for 
KDE, and I don't know nor just a little bit of perl. 

NOTE: You don't need to have installed Gnome System Tools nor Gnome at all.
The network backend of gst comes included with KNetworkConf.

2. Requirements
* KDE 3.1.x
* Qt 3.1.x
* Perl.
* autoconf > 2.5x/automake > 1.6

3. Installation
For installation instructions, please see the INSTALL file, but for
a quick start you can do:

./configure
make
su root
make istall

Mandrake users must add --preix=/usr to the configure script to
install the files in the correct path.

4. Contact
To report bugs or if you have any comment or sugestion about KNetworkConf,
please contact the author at juan.baptiste@kdemail.net.

