Moving Endian firewall 2.4 backup to new hardware.

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[pbraithwaite]

I have recently installed Endian 2.4 Community and it is working well. To do extra testing for configuration of firewall I took a backup of the Production firewall and imported it onto different hardware (Test). Both Production and Test firewalls have 3 NICs. After the import of the Production backup onto the Test firewall I can no longer connect to the Test firewall.

The Test firewall default install is OK and all NIC's work and connection is not a problem. After import when I log into the shell of the Test firewall I have noticed that ETH0,1,2 (default install) have changed and are now ETH3,4,5. When I check BR0 & BR1 they are still looking at ETH0 & ETH1.

Is the firewall backup transportable between different hardware?

If not is there a procedure to make this happen?

[mnicolazzo]

After restoring, go to System -> Network configuration and do the right association between firewall zones and NICs.
It worked for me.

Marco

[pbraithwaite]

I could not even get onto the dashboard after I had installed the backup.

Found answer in this forum:-

Search "2.4 New hardware - ethernet ports numbers change on restore - all broken"