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    best practice moving XG-7100 config to SG-5100

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    • RicoR
      Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
      last edited by

      Is there a clean way to migrate the XG-7100 config over to SG-5100 via GUI and just reassign interfaces?
      I just tried and it created a giant mess with VLAN and LAGG stuff on the SG-5100, crash report and so on. ⛑
      Feels like I have to manually edit the config.xml first...

      -Rico

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        I would probably do it manually but I have done that ..... a lot!

        If you don't need any laggs or vlans you can remove the <laggs>, <vlans> and <switches> sections entirely and then just change the interfaces at the top from lagg0.XXX to igb0-1 or ix0-3.

        Things that may bite you include PPPoE or bridges where the interfaces are shown.

        If you have AltQ shaping currently that cannot run on ix interfaces.

        Steve

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        • RicoR
          Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
          last edited by

          Thanks Steve!
          How about the <widgets> section?

          <iffilter>switch0.port1,switch0.port2,switch0.port3,switch0.port4,switch0.port5,switch0.port6,switch0.port7,switch0.port8,switch0.port9,switch0.port10</iffilter>
          

          -Rico

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Hmm, good question.

            What widget do you have displays that generates that?

            It can probably be removed since it's clearly not relevant on the SG-5100.

            Steve

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            • RicoR
              Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
              last edited by

              • System Information
              • S.M.A.R.T. Status
              • Gateways
              • Firewall Logs
              • Interface Statistics
              • Traffic Graphs
              • Interfaces
              • OpenVPN

              I think it's the Interfaces widget?

              -Rico

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                Ah! yes it's because you are filtering which interfaces are displayed there and I had not.
                Ok so if you remove that section completely it will just show all the interfaces in the widget which you probably want anyway on the SG-5100. You can just configure the widget again if not.

                Steve

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                • RicoR
                  Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                  last edited by Rico

                  Hey Steve,
                  I just tried your recommendations and it works like a charm, many thanks. 👍 ☺
                  Would you recommend to use ZFS with the SG-5100 8GB eMMC?

                  -Rico

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    At this time we do not recommend using ZFS on eMMC. Though I have run at and had no issues there.

                    Steve

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