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Title: Allow renaming gateways
Post by: feld on August 18, 2025, 06:46:37 PM
Please allow renaming gateways. There has to be a way to make this possible...

I have a multi ISP configuration and when I moved recently and brought up all of my gear, got a new primary ISP installed, and discovered I cannot rename gateways with incorrect names. Creating all new gateways and gateway groups, applying them all across the firewall rules where I specify different gateways, etc is tedious and error prone. I just want to update their names 🥲
Title: Re: Allow renaming gateways
Post by: Patrick M. Hausen on August 18, 2025, 08:09:21 PM
Tongue in cheek answer:

- download configuration backup
- edit XML
- re-upload configuration

I support your feature request. Though the best place for that would be an issue on Github.

Kind regards,
Patrick
Title: Re: Allow renaming gateways
Post by: franco on August 19, 2025, 09:12:35 AM
I'm assuming the historic reason for fixed gateway names is that no mechanism to update their internal references in the config.xml exists... from gateway groups to firewall rules.


Cheers,
Franco