Webmin was Re: Ubuntu network configuration

2008-10-13 Thread bruce . labitt
OK, webmin is installed. Looks pretty elaborate. Still, I think I have some dumb networking questions... What is a gateway? If I have two ethernet interfaces, EXTIF and INTIF what should I use for either interface? For EXTIF it should be the dhcp-served gateway, for INTIF what do I use?

Re: Webmin was Re: Ubuntu network configuration

2008-10-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a gateway? Just a guess, but I suspect Webmin probably means default gateway, also called default route. A route is a piece of information that tells your computer how to reach a given destination. The system will

Webmin and ebox was Re: Ubuntu network configuration

2008-10-10 Thread bruce . labitt
With respect to webmin, is there a port to ubuntu? It is not in the repository. There is a program called ebox which appears to be like webmin. I installed ebox, but could not get it to work at all. I just uninstalled it right now. Not sure I understand the concept yet. I would think my

Re: Webmin and ebox was Re: Ubuntu network configuration

2008-10-10 Thread Ted Roche
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would think my questions COULD all be done via the CLI. Many times a gui just doesn't seem to cut it... Absolutely! Everything WebMin does can be done in the CLI. All it does is write config files. But the power of WebMin is that it exposes the options,

Re: Ubuntu network configuration

2008-10-09 Thread Star
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm slowly getting things running on my ubuntu based system. I have a few network questions. I have two NICs, one to the corporate network, and a local one that only runs to a blade computer. eth0 is set up as dhclient. No issues

Re: Ubuntu network configuration

2008-10-08 Thread Alan Johnson
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need eth1 to be a dhcp server. So I installed dhcp3. I editted /etc/default/dhcp3-server to include the line INTERFACES=eth1. Sorry I don't have any real answer to your questions, but I suspect webmin would address the goal of