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I have a Linux board with Ubuntu Trusty on it - this board has WiFi, ethernet port and GPRS modem as well. In addition to my application running on it, I am looking to install LuCI on it so that I can use that Linux board as a router and use LuCI as a GUI for that router. What are the dependencies of LuCI?
Are there any other alternatives to LuCI that I can try that as well? I see Gargoyle-router but I'm unclear on how to install on Ubuntu as well.
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What is LuCI. LuCI is the web user interface of OpenWrt. To access LuCI, at the left side of web Admin Panel -> More Settings -> Advanced. For some models, the LuCI isn't preinstalled, click Install LuCI to continue.
To access LuCI web interface securely, type http://127.0.0.1:8000/ instead of http://openwrt.lan/ or http://192.168.1.1/ . The traffic between your browser to uHTTPd webserver is encapsulated within SSH -tunnel, so that the http traffic gains the same level of SSH traffic encryption.
Installation. The installation consists of writing a raw disk image on the drive which will boot OpenWrt system. It may be a USB flash drive, USB SDcard reader with SDcard or in a SATA hard drive or SSD (recommended). You can do it either on a secondary PC, or booting the router machine with a Live CD/USB.
LuCI is a powerful and exhaustive configuration interface. It can be considered to be a step forward from setting up a router via configuration files through the command line to doing it via a web interface. Thus, it attempts to cover all configuration possibilities which can be enabled using config files.
I doubt that LuCI will work on anything but OpenWRT - it is designed to work with the OpenWRT configuration, scripts, etc. I'd imagine it would be the same for Gargoyle's web interface.
One alternative is WiFiAdmin, which seems like it should work. You could also use something like WebMin.
Another option, of course, is installing OpenWRT instead of Ubuntu - it runs on x86 hardware (I'm assuming here you have an x86 system) and will give you the ability to use LuCI and to treat your system as an appliance.
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