software version on custom appliance, network card order

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Hi 
 Tried to install Sophos sw version on a custom appliance, it did install but the problem is it assigned Port1 to a 10Gb add-on card instead of on-board NICs. 
 I realized that card was given lower PCIe bus number by the system (it sits on Bus #1, the onboard NICs are on Bus #2-8...) 
 So Sophos assigned Port1-4 to add-on 10Gb card and Port5-10 to 1Gb onboard NICs. 
 
 Is there anyway to change this behavior? I know about the "mactab" method but it will be erased when you upgrade to newer firmware

PhilippRusch · Answer

Then you could use a switch with 10 GBE and 1 GBE connectivity. The firewallsystem connects to the 10 GBE port of the switch, your laptop uses a 1 GBE port.

LuCar Toni · Answer

So we assign it to the Bus, thats correct. But is this an issue, which order you have? Because the order can be irrelevant to you, if you rename the interface in the UI: Like Giving Port1 the name Port3 will reorder it.

JasP · Answer

There may be neater ways of doing this but the following should work. 
 From the advanced shell (option 5 then 3), you can use the ifconfig command: 
 Change Port1 to something else, then setup your chosen port as 172.16.16.16: 
 ifconfig Port1 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up ifconfig Port3 172.16.16.16 netmask 255.255.255.0 up 
 N.B. 'Port' has to be specified with a capital P. This is Linux remember and everything is case sensitive! 
 Not sure how to change Zone but you can use the following command from the CLI Console to allow temporary admin access on all Zones: 
 system appliance_access enable 
 This should allow you to get into the GUI and change zone and make whatever other changes you want.

software version on custom appliance, network card order

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