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    Changing name of gateway

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    • K Offline
      krisken
      last edited by

      Dear,

      In system > routing, i want to change the name of some gateways to a easy to understand name in stead of "GW_OPTx" (x = number).  When I want to change this name, i get an error "The following input errors were detected: changing name on a gateway is not allowed."

      Is there really no option to change the name of the gateway?  And if not, why isn't it possible?

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      • stephenw10S Offline
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        It would seem not:
        http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,48072.0.html  :(

        Unless you go the manual edit route.

        Steve

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        • K Offline
          krisken
          last edited by

          Manual edit route?  How do you mean?

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          • stephenw10S Offline
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            @cmb:

            that's never been permitted. can either very carefully manually edit the config with viconfig and make sure you don't orphan any references, or backup the config and do the same edit and restore it.

            I imagine it's easy to miss something and find yourself without a gateway (or worse).  ::)

            Steve

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