While I order a hp server for my Ubuntu server, I am currently temporarily using my laptop as a server instead. I installed Ubuntu 13.10 and other programs like Webmin, etc, etc while being connected to my router through wi-fi. Additionally, through a wi-fi connection, I have hosted numerous websites, game servers and an ftp server.

The issue is that when I try to connect the laptop to the same router through ethernet, the local ip changes. This means that no services, such as Webmin, work locally or publicly. When I go back to using wi-fi, the issue is solved, however, because the wi-fi connection cannot maintain the traffic to and from the server, I need to use ethernet connection to keep up with the demand.

I have portforwarded the ports I use from my wi-fi local ip to my ethernet local ip but I have no luck so far since the problem is on the local side, not from local to public.

My question is, how can I configure my services to the new IP?

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system

# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).



# The loopback network interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback



# The primary network interface

#NetworkManager#auto wlan0

#NetworkManager#iface wlan0 inet dhcp

#NetworkManager#        wpa-ssid routername

#NetworkManager#        wpa-psk  routerpassword

The result of ip ad is:

$ ip a

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN

    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

    inet6 ::1/128 scope host

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000

    link/ether 00:1c:23:3a:24:db brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

    inet 192.168.***.***/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

    inet 192.168.***.***/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global secondary eth0

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

    inet6 fe80::21c:23ff:fe3a:24db/64 scope link

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN qlen 1000

    link/ether 00:19:d2:03:0c:f8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

    inet6 fe80::219:d2ff:fe03:cf8/64 scope link

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever



$ ip r

default via 192.168.***.*** dev eth0  proto static

192.168.***.***/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.***.***  metric 1



$ sudo ethtool eth0

Settings for eth0:

        Supported ports: [ TP ]

        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full

                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full

        Supported pause frame use: No

        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes

        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full

                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full

        Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric

        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

        Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full

                                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

        Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only

        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

        Speed: 100Mb/s

        Duplex: Full

        Port: Twisted Pair

        PHYAD: 1

        Transceiver: internal

        Auto-negotiation: on

        MDI-X: off

        Supports Wake-on: g

        Wake-on: g

        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)

                               drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err

        Link detected: yes