System information

Chapter 4
The Interfaces Menu
The interfaces menu will allow you to do a wide range of networking setups, including choosing to
bridge interfaces, and create virtual distribution systems (VDS) – more on that later. Only the barest of
basics was covered in the Getting Started chapter. Much of what is here is new. But first, the basics.
Configuring Interfaces
The Interfaces menu is split into three sections (see fig 1). To keep a logical flow, we'll take these
sections out of order starting with the lower section first, since the upper section contains slightly more
advanced configurations that generally require more basic things to be configured first.
fig 1: interfaces menu
Ether and Wireless Cards
Each physical device you have in your system will have a line in the interfaces menu (see fig 1). This
line contains a summary of information about that device. Following the device name (used to identify
the device in scripts in the advanced menu) is the devices MAC address, the MTU, number of
configured IPs, and the bridge number to which a device belongs. Note that, while the wireless devices
here are numbered starting with 1, if you use the system console, you'll find the devices numbered