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Swapping network cards

Hi,

Running Sophos XG on a Dell PowerEdge R220 at the moment, move back to the Dell after enabling SSL inspection etc. and found the PondDesk too slow re admin. The Dell PowerEdge server has two onboard NICs (not shown in Sophos, can't remember if I disabled them in the BIOS). and a 4 Port Intel VT 1000 NIC can't remember the model number, it's from a HPE ProLiant server. The current config has WAN interface, MGMT, LAN and IOT. All plugged into a switch with the relevant VLANs defined as native for the port.

What I am wishing to do due to potential switch port capacity (16 Port switch), is remove the Intel NIC for a Intel Pro/1000Pt Dual Server NIC I'll then change the config on the interface 2 and switch port for MGMT to be the native and other networks tagged to the relevant VLAN IDs.

Will Sophos XG install break if I swap physical network cards?

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0 rfcat_vk over 4 years ago

Hi Mike,

the only issue will be if you have configured the NICs you want to remove.

Make sure they are disabled, perform a power restart and then a backup.

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0 LuCar Toni over 4 years ago

Maybe, hard to tell.

First of all, the big question would be, if the kernel can allocate the new card.

The second question would be, if all the interfaces will be the same order, as XG can flip them.
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0 Mike Scott over 4 years ago in reply to rfcat_vk

Hi,

Ok many thanks, I will look at doing that. I could just unplug NICs and do the config on the 4 Port, but got other plans for that card atm

Once happy I'll be selling the PondDesk unit off.

Happy with the Xeon E3-1240L-V3as it has a 25W TDP. I would consider running ESXi on the box, but it's only got 8GB of RAM.
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0 Mike Scott over 4 years ago

I might change the card come to think about it for a i340-T4 or i340-T2 as better power consumption. The concept of swapping a card is the same.
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