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      moelharrak
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      Hi,
      I'm monitoring my pfsense using Zabbix, I need to know how can I change the name on pfsense from re0 to something meaningful like WAN or LAN?

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        SteveITS Galactic Empire
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        re0 is the name assigned by the driver. If you go to Interfaces/Assignments that will show you the description assigned. Technically if you go to Interfaces/LAN you'll see you can change the Description there, but I'd suggest not as that might be confusing.

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          dotdash
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          Zabbix is just pulling the hardware interface name. You're going to have to look at aliasing it on the Zabbix side. How to do that would be a question for a Zabbix forum, not a pfSense one.

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