El lun, 23-06-2008 a las 20:42 +0200, Henning Sprang escribió: > Hi, > I'm just getting started with ebox - evaluating it for usage in a > small personal network. Hi Henning,
We hope you like eBox :). > I like it so far, I already tested the live-cd, made an installation > in a Virtualbox VM (with some hassles, related to the PAE Kernel in > Ubuntu Server - see > http://lazyb0y.blogspot.com/2008/06/testing-ebox.html ), and will > hopefully find time to set it up as a Xen virtual machine on my main > server next week or so. Thanks for reporting these issues between Ubuntu Server and Virtualbox. > That said, I have some questions: > > 1) my first and main reason for starting with eBox ist for DHCP and > DNS-Management - I have the skills, but I am too lazy to ssh into a > system and manually add dns and dhcp entries in config files, restart > services, etc. So, with eBox I have a nice graphical browser interface > to do that. > But I wonder, there is the network objects module in ebox, and here, I > can also make entries for each host with name, MAC, and IP. But I > couldn't find a way to make DHCP and DNS use the data given there for > their service - I had to manually make DHCP and DNS entries, too. So, > in the end, for each host I have to make 3 entries before I can get > started with a new machine (and I wil be doing this often, as I create > and destroy many virtual machines when doing development and testing). You're right there. We have planned to give more integration between dhcp, dns and network objects in order to set host details in just one place. > 2) In the DHCP module, are there plans, to make additional dhcp option > entries possible? For example, for my FAI installations, I want to > have the root-path entry, something like: > option root-path > "/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,acregmin=1800,acregmax=1800,acdirmin=1800,acdirmax=1800"; > server-name "faiserver"; > (also, for thin clients, these are needed ) I think, it might be a > good idea, to have a free-form test field, for advanced users with > special needs - so there is no need to add a specific field for every > dhcp option, of which most are not needed by most users, but advanced > users have complete freedom. server-name option is already available under "DHCP -> Advanced options -> Thin client -> Next server". Regarding to advanced options, it could be a good idea but it may face against ease-to-use eBox philosophy and many options may overwhelm the user. > 3) And the last one: I realize, older versions of eBox where made for > Debian Sarge, in all install docs for the newer Versions, only UBuntu > Hardy is mentioned. > Will it be possible to install eBox on Debian Etch? Or would I waste > time even when only trying this? Currently, lastest eBox versions only support Ubuntu. We have come from debian sarge. We think it's not difficult to give support for Debian stable releases but it is hard to say more than this. Hope this helps. _______________________________________________ Ebox-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.warp.es/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user
