PfSense migration
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Linux drives are pretty easy to migrate into new physical servers.
Just pull the drive and put into a new server.
Sometimes you need to update the UDEV, but for the most part it works.I do not know if FreeBSD/pfsense drives can be moved around like that.
Or would it be better/faster to install a new pfsense and reinstall all the rules ?
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I have an installation on a USB stick, works fine with different devices, should be no problem with a hard disk, I guess (i386/64 should make a difference, however). Do a backup of your config before, just for the case…;-)
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I've physically moved Drives for pfSense but really bar far the simplest method is to take a configuration backup. Install pfsense on the new hardware and run the configuration restore..
In fact when I'm building my pfsense boxes I have a standard configuration starter which I put on the USB installer so when they boot up for the first time they are already half way done.
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I'm curious if different MAC addresses don't mess up the if configs.
I had a bunch of trouble with Ubuntu distros.Cheers.