Webmin was Re: Ubuntu network configuration

[bruce.labitt at autoliv.com]

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?

For the edit bootup interface on eth1, I have setup a static ip.  What 
should I use for the broadcast box?

I am in the active routes page, what goes here?

If I ping an address that should be on INTIF, ie it is on 192.168.3.xxx, 
how does
my machine know to route to the INTIF?

Next, do I need to "do" anything to get tftp setup?  Where do I edit the 
initialization file?  Is this to 
be done in webmin - or external to webmin?

Thanks
-Bruce
"Keeping the list alive..."


gnhlug-discuss-bounces at mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 10/10/2008 09:40:25 AM:

> bruce.labitt at autoliv.com 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, organizes them in a logical way, and then writes out a
> consistent configuration file. (and spells them correctly!)
> 
> For example, I've maintained Samba configs by hand, and it's easy to
> write conflicting configurations where you use a WinNT-level setting
> when you should be using a CIFS oriented setting. WebMin helps sort that
> out.
> 
> As for Ubuntu ports, I have always just installed WebMin from the
> tarballs available at www.webmin.com and followed the installation
> instructions. That's worked for me on Fedora, CentOS and Ubuntu.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Ted Roche
> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
> http://www.tedroche.com
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