Can't rename Gateway.. Thanks alot

Started by frozen, March 01, 2026, 02:56:52 AM

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Idiotic UX UI failure, why can't I rename my gateway?  What a complete waste of time, thanks for forcing me to delete all kinds of work just to appease a stupid name change

Gateways are referenced by name in places like static routes and firewall rules. Renaming a gateway could break your configuration.

What you can do: Download a config backup, use search & replace to rename the gateway everywhere, reimport the config.

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Maurice
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Clone, delete?

That decision was probably made almost 20 years ago when data integrity and cross referencing items in the config.xml were a funny developer joke.


Cheers,
Franco