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      gelcom
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      Hi, I'm currently running my pfSense 2.5 on ESXi 6.7. I intend to migrate it to bare metal. What's the correct way to do this?

      I assume I'll install pfSense on bare metal and try to import backup config file but I think this won't work as interface names are not the same (esxi exposes vmx interfaces while I have physical igbs and cxls).

      How am I supposed to to this?

      Any helps is appreciated

      kind regards

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        SteveITS Galactic Empire @gelcom
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        When you import/restore the config file it should prompt you to assign new interfaces (e.g. assign WAN to igb0). You can also manually edit the .xml config file before restoring if desired.

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