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Adding another NIC totally breaks XG Firewall and all dependent rules

Timothy Stewart

Hi.  I have been running XG firewall with 2 NICs - LAN and WAN.  I decided to add another for DMZ and it totally breaks the firewall.  All NICs get reassigned.  Port 1 LAN becomes DMZ, Port 2 WAN becomes LAN, and the newly added Port 2 becomes LAN instead of the unassigned DMZ.  This is crazy.  It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't break all of my rules the depend on Port 2 being WAN, which means when I reassign the new Port 3 to WAN the interface name changes and all business rules that depended on Port2_GW_DHCP get abandoned since this interface no longer exists.

Is this expected?  Is there a simple way to rename ports and reassign them to their old name, role, and position?  This seems like a major bug.



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    Is there a way to add a NIC as unassigned rather than it assigning itself to existing NIC assignments?
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    I also have this same issues, running XG in ESXi.  I had 3 NIC's configured at install but want to add a 4th NIC for a separate wireless network.  As soon as I add the 4th NIC and reboot the virtual appliance, I instantly lose access to any of the IP Networks configured in the XG.  I've tried randomly re-assigning the networks to each NIC so I can find the one thats now my new LAN adapter, but it doesn't work, I can never ping my internal LAN IP again.  I have to remove the 4th NIC and reboot again.  Once I do that, the XG comes up nicely like nothing ever happened.  Quite frustrating!  

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    I also have this same issues, running XG in ESXi.  I had 3 NIC's configured at install but want to add a 4th NIC for a separate wireless network.  As soon as I add the 4th NIC and reboot the virtual appliance, I instantly lose access to any of the IP Networks configured in the XG.  I've tried randomly re-assigning the networks to each NIC so I can find the one thats now my new LAN adapter, but it doesn't work, I can never ping my internal LAN IP again.  I have to remove the 4th NIC and reboot again.  Once I do that, the XG comes up nicely like nothing ever happened.  Quite frustrating!  

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