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23.7 Legacy Series / Re: GUI not accessible after IP change

« on: April 18, 2024, 04:21:56 am »

The OPNsense is connected directly to the computer and the OPNsense is providing the dhcp. I should be able to change the IP address and the dhcp server serves up the new address to the computer. No issue if I nuke the LAN interface and make a new LAN interface. The issue arrises when changing the existing address. The issue occurs even if i turn off the dhcp server before changing the address and reenabling the dhcp server on the OPNsense.

It’s not an issue on other routers. Can change the IP address and still can access the GUI. Just on OPNsense.

I had to restore the config.xml through the serial port since there was no other way to get back the GUI. I could not even get back service doing a factory restore or by changing back the IP address on the opnsense-shell program.   Really shouldn't be this hard.

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23.7 Legacy Series / GUI not accessible after IP change

« on: April 17, 2024, 06:36:03 pm »

Received new Protectli V2430 and plugged into my PC ethernet port. Normal  stock Dell XPS15 running windows 11.

Logged into OPNsense under root,opnsense GUI.

Changed static IP to 192.158.50.1 and lost access to GUI.
After restoring the config.xml file, then tried changing dhcp range at the same time.
Lost GUI access again and had to restore.

I generated a GUI interface at 192.168.69.1 and deleted the LAN interface and made a new LAN interface at 192.168.50.1 with dhcp server.


Now have GUI on both LAN and GUI interfaces.

Why can’t an IP address be changed without losing the GUI access? This really should be more automatic that the OPNsense software does whatever is necessary to make sure GUI is still accessible when static IP for LAN is changed.

Also it shows the connection is not secure when connecting to the new interfaces.
Can OPNsense software be enganced to do what is necessary so https:// works without issues? Can you automate the process?

Does the new OPNsense version solve any of this?

Why I need to type mount -o -u rw /   in order to restore backup config.xml files? Can’t the opnsense-sheel code include what is necessary to support easy usage? Having to spend hours to figure out how to restore a configure file is kind of nuts.

Sorry to sound like I’m complaining, but just providing feedback from a first time users perspective. Would be great to make OPNsense more user friendly. At least not requiring 8 hours of work to change a static IP address.


Thanks for any ideas you have or if any improvement follow.