Team,
First off, I love, Love, LOVE my GL-AXT1800! It is FAST, reliable, and handles my VPN needs on the road with aplomb.
I have one concerning issue, though:
After updating to firmware 4.1.0 r5, I now get a warning message when I navigate in the LuCI GUI to Network → Interfaces.
It tells me that the interfaces are not named conventionally, and that it wants to OVER-WRITE the ifnames on the system.
(See picture)
I am concerned that, if I allow the re-naming, the GL.inet GUI (default web interface) won’t function correctly, or … worse yet … that it may BREAK the system entirely.
I can’t tell —from the short warning message— if the renaming/restarting of the network interfaces will cause second- or third-order effects.
@alzhao Okay. Thanks!
My concern was that if —somehow— it ‘broke’ the default web GUI, then my only “get well” option would be a full RESET of the firmware.
…which, as you know, would result in quite a bit of time getting the router re-setup how I like it.
(I am presuming that the changed ifnames would cause issues with trying to reinstantiate the old backup of the config file…)
Am I understanding the consiequences of “it didn’t work out well” correctly?
Usually luci does this only if you upgrade from a older firmware with swconfig to dsa switch, however in this case its only the aliases from what I checked what is changed.
So far it works fine also with DSA vlan switching on flint.
Well…for anyone else who sees that warning and grits their teeth…
It worked FLAWLESSLY.
(I am ashamed to admit that I failed to make/place a backup copy of the ifnames before the conversion … so I can’t really tell what changed at all.)
Nonetheless, the router is still working PERFECTLY after the re-naming.
So, ALL IS WELL.
Thanks to @alzhao and @xize11 for their speedy replies and kind advice! Much appreciated, friends!!