Best Practice for Changing Physical Interfaces

[CLI_Novice]

Hello,

I am running 21.7.8-amd64 using VLANs on a single NIC Lenovo ThinkCentre M73. So I utilized VLANS and a VLAN aware switch. I want to delete the VLANS, add USB NICs and make the native NIC the WAN port.

Is there a "simple" way or best practice to save all the settings (LAN DHCP, FW rules, Static mapping etc...) before deleting the interfaces, then apply them to newly created ones?

I tried something similar a few years ago and had to re-create everything.

Thanks a Bunch!

Cary

[Demusman]

Don't delete them.
Just reassign them.
Best way is to use the console menu but you can do it from the webgui as long as you aren't connected to one of the interfaces you're trying to reassign.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

USB NICs are frequently flakey and not really recommended. Just saying.

[CLI_Novice]

USB NICs are frequently flakey and not really recommended. Just saying.

Thank You for the quick response, My TP-Link VLAn aware switch is probably more flakey, it's a temporary measure until I obtain a multi interface unit.

[EdwinKM]

Not sure if it works, but if you export the config file, rename/delete stuff in the xml and import the new one?