pfsense 2.3x config import

[dragon2611]

Not sure if I just got lucky but imported the config from a PfSense 2.3x VM by changing version to 11.1 in the xml tags.

Had to reset the passwords for some ovpn users and had to re-save the config on the WAN interface before the firewall rules showed up (did pfctl -d in the cli to get back into the box)  Other than that it seemed to work which saved me rebuilding the OVPN config on a load of other devices 

[dragon2611]

Hmm on another one it imported but it disabled the console menu and none of the passwords I have work for the webUI.

Because the console menu is disabled I can't figure out how to reset the webui login either.

Edit: found the location of the script to nuke the password (already forgotten where it was)

[franco]

Config imports on 2.1 work perfectly. 2.2 mostly. 2.3 barely without major hurdles like you mentioned.

This is due to the fact that a lot of config.xml layout changed in pfSense including how password hashes are stored. We can't provide reasonable forward-compatibility for this.


Cheers,
Franco