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      far_ken_beauty
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      I have recently purchased a new motherbaord for my firewall box.
      Am I able to simply swap the hard drive over and have pfsense detect the new hardware and NICs etc?
      Or do I have to re-install again? I guess, does pfsense configure hardware when installed or does it detect it every time at bootup?

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        GruensFroeschli
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        If you change the NIC's you will get a "NIC missmatch" error.
        You would have to reassign the NIC's from the local console.

        Other than that it should work without problem.

        We do what we must, because we can.

        Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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          far_ken_beauty
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          Just the reply I was hoping for!  ;D

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