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  This page is a description of the (network) interface manager (web) interface and functionality.

  The interface manager interface is reached by clicking on the Manage Interfaces link in the navigation bar in any of the other interfaces in the application.

  The interface manager interface displays a tabulated form in which each row represents the preferred configuration settings for the interface named in the column labelled "interface". The settings and displays in each column are as follows:

• New:
    This column displays whether the interface is newly discovered, requiring its settings to be confirmed before it will be enabled in the configuration.
• Interface:
    This column displays the name of the interface.
• Active:
    This setting determines whether the interface will be included in the configuration. If set to DOWN, the interface will be disabled, and no rules, routes, or translations will be implemented for that interface.
• LAN:
    This column displays whether the IP addresses assigned to this interface are routable (external) or non-routable (internal).
• IP Address:
    This setting indicates the primary IP address to be assigned to this interface.
• Network:
    This column displays the network IP address of this interface, given current settings.
• Gateway:
    This setting indicates the gateway IP address to be assigned to this interface.
• Broadcast:
    This setting indicates the broadcast IP address to be assigned to this interface.
• Netmask:
    This setting indicates the netmask IP address to be assigned to this interface.

  When an interface is newly detected, it will be listed in this interface in its default state: DOWN. In order to enable a such an interface, select "UP" from the select input in the Active cell for the new interface. The Advanced Router will also have detected current initial settings for the interface. Be sure to double check that they are appropriate. After having made any necessary adjustments, click the Save link in the control bar. At this point, the newly saved configuration has not yet been applied. Until it is, the active rules and routes remain just as they were before the changes were entered. The saved changes will not be made active until the configuration is applied in the Configuration Check interface, covered in User Manual - Configuration Check.

  The control bar offers two links. The first, Save, saves the currently entered settings to the database to be used to generate the configuration. The second, Revert, reloads the interface manager interface without saving the changes to the database, effectively reverting to the settings as they were when the page was first loaded. However, if there are unsaved changes, the Revert link will first ask the user for confirmation by loading a message into the message bar, which turns red. At the end of the confirmation message, there are two links. The Revert link reverts to the settings in the database, while the Cancel link returns the user to the interface manager interface with the changes still loaded, but unsaved.

  The navigation bar offers links to Log Out, covered in User Manual - Log Out, Status, covered in User Manual - Status, Manage Hosts, covered in User Manual - Host Manager, Check and Apply Configuration, covered in User Manual - Configuration Check, Manage Passwords, covered in User Manual - Manage Passwords, this Manual, and the Bugs report/support forum for skyPipes application users. If there are any unsaved changes, all the navigation links except Manual and Bugs (which open new windows) will ask for a confirmation before navigating away, giving the user a chance to cancel the navigation and return to their unsaved changes intact.