If I have a production system running on hardware X, and I want to move
it to hardware Y, is there a way to do so by exporting the configuration
and re-importing it on the other box? It would appear that the answer
is YES and it works 100% perfectly UNLESS the hardware interfaces are
not identical.
In the scenario where the hardware interfaces are NOT the same, is it
possible to do something simple like search/replace the configuration
file, substituting the interface names? Is there any reason to believe
that process would be less than 100% perfect? Let's assume I have the
same NUMBER of interfaces on both machines.
I ask for two reasons:
1. We've got a some production systems running on soekris 5501's, that
need to be migrated to 6501's for performance reasons. I would prefer as
little risk of downtime and breakage as possible.
2. It has implications for 'cold spare' strategy in environments where
high availability is a design priority. IOW, I can keep a 5501 kicking
around as a cold spare (instead of a SECOND 6501) _IF_ I know with for
sure that i can quickly re-jigger a backup for a different piece of
hardware.
Is this feasible, or would it this always require a more iterative
'hands-on' approach, importing the configurations 'area by area' (dhcp,
rules, shaper, nat etc) only after the interfaces have been specified?
Thanks
-Karl
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