ppp: how to tell the connection speed?

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr>]

Hi,

	I'm packaging wmppp.app 1.2 (a PPP monitoring tool that fits
on a 64x64 window) and it requieres an external program to determine
the connection speed. The sample program does this:

	tac /var/log/messages | grep CONNECT | head -1

since /var/log/messages is not world readable, this program has to be
suid root, (yikes!) but on Debian, that's not a problem because it's
the same as

	grep CONNECT /var/log/ppp.log | tail -1

and /var/log/ppp.log is world readable...

But the problem is I get:

[14 jacinta:~] grep -A 6 CONNECT /var/log/ppp.log | tail
May  1 16:54:37 jacinta chat[669]: expect (CONNECT)
May  1 16:54:37 jacinta chat[669]: ^M
May  1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: ATDT207-5661^M^M
May  1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: CONNECT
May  1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]:  -- got it 
May  1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: send (^M)
May  1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: expect (name:)
May  1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]:  14400/ARQ/V32/LAPM/V42BIS^M
May  1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: ^M
May  1 16:55:07 jacinta chat[669]: ^M

(yes, I've got an 14.4 modem... I've never bothered to buy a new one)

As you can see chat breaks the CONNECT line. Is there a way to tell
the connection speed? Once on IRC I told Manoj to use $PPP_SPEED on
the ip-up/ip-down scripts, but he pointed out that that didn't report
the connection speed but the maximum speed on the line.

Is there a way out of this, or is this a case by case problem?

Thanks,

				Marcelo


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