Re: [pfSense] Move instance from X to Y, cold spare.

2012-04-23 Thread Mike McLaughlin
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Vick Khera wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Karl Fife wrote: > > 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?

Re: [pfSense] Move instance from X to Y, cold spare.

2012-04-23 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Karl Fife wrote: > 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 t

[pfSense] Move instance from X to Y, cold spare.

2012-04-23 Thread Karl Fife
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 ident