The web interface is a graphical frontend for configuring IPFire. It can be easily accessed with a web browser, and after a successful login it allows access to the most important features of IPFire.
By default the web interface is at the following URL.
https://ipfire.localdomain:444
The interface is also accessible via IPFire's IP.
https://192.168.1.1:444
The 192.168.1.1 is in this example the internal IP address (Green) of your IPFire and 444 is the port. Your configuration may have a different IP, but the port is probably still 444.
To keep the configuration as clear as possible, the menu is subdivided into various areas of configuration.
IPFire's main settings.
The
Start Page offers an overview of all network connections.
The next option is
Dial Up. It is only active if a dial up connection is used.
The
SSH Access section offers the option to activate an
SSH server to configure the system via remote shell.
The
Backup section offers various options to save the configuration of your IPFire installation. There are options to back up the entire system to an IPFire settings file (*.ipf) or create an installable
ISO. There are also options to backup the configuration of addons, such as Samba.
Inside the
User Interface section you can change the look and feel of the web interface.
Finally, the
Credits list the contributors to the IPFire project (Developers, Support and Testers).
In this section can be found graphs and status reports on many parts of the system.
* Network Traffic
Here are all settings for the network. This section offers options to configure the Advanced Proxy and other tools with an easy to use graphical interface.
DHCP Server can't be missed in a user friendly network.
The
Connection Scheduler is able to disconnect and reconnect the red connection at given times or the change the connection profile itself.
Edit Hosts Assign names to the Clients so you can access them with the hostname as well as their IP address.
DNS Server Set the
DNS server for your red interface, useful if your red0 interface doesn't use
DHCP.
Assign MAC Address Change the MAC address on red0. Useful for cable modems and other equipment that binds to a specific MAC address.
Wake On LAN Power up computers which are configured for Wake on LAN.
Here you can configure both of the VPN technologies supported by IPFire.
IPSec Developed to make general TCP/IP more secure.
* OpenVPN More easily create roadwarrior style connections to your own VPN. Alternatively you can also use TauVPN.
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The
Time Server Synchronize IPFire to an external time source, then serve time to LAN clients via NTP.
Quality of Service Grant specified bandwidth for specific services, like VoIP or game traffic.
ExtraHD Quickly and easily mount additional internal and external hard drives.
To allow access from the orange or blue Network to the green one, you have to create
DMZ-Pinholes.
To protect the internal Networks from the risks of the internet, the
Outgoing Firewall has been developed.
At the beginning of the section “IPFire” you can find the menupoint Pakfire in your sidebar. In the left column are all available Addons and in the right column the already installed addons. The addons Samba, Tripwire and Mpfire have an own Webgui to configure and control them in the sidebar.
Here you can find a graphical or textbased overview of the logfiles:
