> On Dec 4, 2017, at 9:07 AM, Eero Volotinen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> well. my plan was to add first carp vip addresses to old configuration with
> gui and then
> switching them to main addresses using search and replace.
> 
> and then just restore config to main firewall and use config sync to
> replicate it to secondary..
> 
> 

I guess do whatever feels right then.

> --
> Eero
> 
> 2017-12-04 18:41 GMT+02:00 Chris L <[email protected]>:
> 
>> On Dec 4, 2017, at 8:11 AM, Eero Volotinen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well. is that really so hard?
>>> 
>>> thinking to add carp ip addresses and switching them to main addresses by
>>> editing xml backup and then restoring it to firewall..
>>> 
>>> I have same hardware (3* sg-8860). one for backup..
>> 
>> It depends on how complicated your setup is.
>> 
>> If there were lots of interfaces and physical interface name changes, I
>> might edit the configuration to change the interface names and the
>> interface addresses (many people use .2 for the primary, .3 for the
>> secondary, and .1 for the CARP VIP, for instance) but after that I would
>> use the GUI to make the HASYNC interface, VIPs and configure HA.
>> 
>> I would not try to configure the secondary that way. I would configure it
>> from scratch and let the configuration for everything exceopt the
>> interfaces, etc sync over.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Eero
>>> 
>>> 4.12.2017 17.49 "Steve Yates" <[email protected]> kirjoitti:
>>> 
>>>> I don't think it would qualify as "simple" since it involves setting up
>> an
>>>> additional interface on each as well as the CARP virtual IPs.
>>>> 
>>>> If you're asking about linking your old router to a new router, the
>>>> routers have to use the same hardware interface (NIC) names in order to
>>>> sync firewall states (em0 to igb0 won't sync).
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> 
>>>> Steve Yates
>>>> ITS, Inc.
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eero
>>>> Volotinen
>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2017 11:04 AM
>>>> To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List <[email protected]
>>> 
>>>> Subject: [pfSense] single pfsense to ha conversion
>>>> 
>>>> Hi List,
>>>> 
>>>> I just bought two pieces of sg-8860 netgate devices and planning to
>> convert
>>>> old unit to ha solution.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there simple way to convert units to ha with a bit editing xml
>> backup?
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Eero
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