We have a 3200 appliance running Gaia R81.20
The WAN side gets an ip-address over DHCP and we manage this system with smartconsole.
For the moment everything is working properly.
What happens if the external ip-address changes because of whatever reason?
From my experience you always have to update the setting in Smartconsole, thus; get interfaces and then afterwards do a policy install.
But this means that for some time (until the policy is installed) you have downtime.
Is there a way to keep the firewall and internet connection up and running, without a new policy install?
I don't want to discuss the reason why DHCP is used here, nor do we need tips about keep in mind portforwarding/natting etc..