[lug] network config tools?

Ferdinand Schmid fschmid at archenergy.com
Wed Apr 11 14:49:33 MDT 2001


Just FYI - linuxconf on RH 6.2 broke David's computer at the CLIQ pretty
good!  It removed the local interface and broke much more.  It may be a
good tool but use caution.  Nothing like manually configuring your
interfaces!

Ferdinand

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
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