3.7. Coyote Linux Web Administrator

Coyote Linux has a nice and well-functioning web administrator that lets you perform almost all day-to-day operations. Point your web browser to the address http://10.0.2.1:8180

At this address you will be met by the Coyote Linux web administrator. Click on the link, and then write in the username root and the password you made, refer to Figure 3-15

All options and choices are done in the Main Menu to the left.

1. Information

   Choosing this will give you the status of your network cards, the IP addresses they have, uptime of Coyote Linux, load and such.

2. LAN configuration

   Here you have the option of changing the configuration of the LAN network card, the one that goes to the Skolelinux/Debian-edu network.

   Don't change anything here! Doing so will severely reduce the performance of your Skolelinux/Debian-edu network.

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   	Should parse the contents of change_ip_setup in here, later.

   Leave the values as they are, refer to A.

3. Internet configuration

   Here you have the chance of changing the values of your WAN network card, the one that goes to Internet. If you get a new ISP, or go from getting your IP address assigned by DHCP to having a static IP address, then this is the place to change that kind of information with no need for creating a new Coyote Linux floppy from scratch. See 2.b

4. DHCP configuration

   This gives you the chance to configure the DHCP-server that comes with Coyote Linux.

   Do not enable the DHCP-server in Coyote Linux! See 2.h

5. Administrative Configurations

   Here you can enable/disable services such as DNS, SSH, webadmin.

6. Port Forwarding

   Here you can change and enable port forwarding on Coyote Linux. This is a very practical and neat feature in a Skolelinux/Debian-edu network. Since Coyote Linux stops and blocks most connections, even passing SSH, it's nice to be able to use port forwarding and that way still get past Coyote Linux with incoming SSH-connection to the Skolelinux/Debian-edu network.

   With this port forwarding rule

   Yes 	TCP 	Any 	22 	10.0.2.2 	22 	No 	  SSH straight into Mainserver
   

   all SSH-connections coming to Coyote Linux will be redirected to the Skolelinux/Debian-edu main server. If this is advisable in your network, you must decide.

7. Simplified Firewall Configuration

   Here you can setup and configure the firewall rules in Coyote Linux. There are plenty of ready-made rules that you can use as examples.

8. Advanced Firewall Configuration<

9. QOS Configuration

   Here you can setup bandwidth limitations

10. System password

    Here you can change the root password, also known as the system password in Coyote Linux, just like you did using the command line in Section 3.6.

11. Configuration files

    This is the files that contains all your configurations.

12. Diagnostic tools

    Here you have useful tools, such as ping, gateway test, DNS server test, status of network.

13. Backup now

    If you have made any changes in Coyote Linux, then you must remember to write them to floppy, by choosing this Main Menu item, otherwise your changes will be gone when you reboot Coyote Linux. There is a red warning at the bottom of the screen whenever you make changes to Coyote Linux without having them written to the floppy.

14. Reboot system

    When you need to reboot Coyote Linux, you can do so from this Main Menu item. You will have to reconfirm this option.

    Figure 3-18. Reboot or shutdown Coyote Linux?