[lug] network config tools?

[Scott A. Herod]

This UI is intended to have basically the same interface as 
netconfig ( but it's got to look a lot better :-).  Let me
see what it does under the cover.  Thank goodness for 
Open Source.

I did find "Webmin" which is perl based and which seems to have
much more functionality.  http://www.webmin.com/webmin/

The idea for the interface I'm  working on is that it's for very
basic network configuration of what is essentially just an
appliance.  Probably there will be a fancier interface for
experts.  Webmin is a possibility.

I also see that there are a couple linuxconf scripts buried down
in  /usr/lib/linuxconf but most of linuxconf appears to use
the .so files.

Scott

Scott

Dhruva Reddy wrote:
> 
> An observation...
> 
> I've never actually used this tool (I didn't discover
> it until after the machine was configured), but I did
> notice that (at least for Redhat 6.2) it does not
> appear to support configuring multiple IP addresses on
> the same network interface.
> 
> Scott, perhaps you could take a look at this, if you
> haven't already.
> 
> DHCP is really growing on me :-)
> 
> Dhruva
> 
> --- John Hernandez <John.Hernandez at noaa.gov> wrote:
> > What distro are you writing this for?  Have a look
> > at (or just use) the RH netconfig program.  It's
> > fairly handy.
> >
> > "Scott A. Herod" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >   I'm working on a simple network configuration UI
> > and rather than
> > > doing all the behind-the-scenes stuff myself would
> > like to make use
> > > of some existing, reasonably small, package.  Can
> > anyone suggest
> > > something?  I'd really like to not break whatever
> > linuxconf does.
> > > Is it reasonable to try to use scripts directly?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Scott