Import config RB951g-2HnD to RB951UI-2HnD

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Hi,

I work in QA for an IPTV service and our client provides some configs so we can have VPNs to access their respective TV service.
Now we used to have RB951g-2HnD (which seems discontinued) models which are configured and working as intended, but we got brand new RB951UI-2HnD, we’ve tried importing the configs from RB951g-2HnD to RB951UI-2HnD but the latter stops working with imported config.

I’ve seen some posts saying that there are some incompatibilities, i could manually config the Mikrotik with the provided one, my issue is that this new model does not have Firewall configs and some other stuff seems to be missing so i can’t really make it work at all.

So, is there any way i can import configs from one model to the other? Do you guys know which configs are not supported?

Thanks, and sorry for the messy post :smiley:

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If you’re talking about restoring backup file, created on a different device model, then no, this is not supported. Even if it somehow works in certain device combinations.

If you’re talking about importing textual configuration exports … then again they don’t generally work. But since tgey are essentally configueation commands it’s possible to do it step-by-step and when something fails it’s possible to analyze the problem and fix it. In some ROS version steps there are incompatible changes and one has to adjust config to new syntax.

And a word of caution: configs which are based on old defaults are generally sub-optimalm specially when it comes to device security. So when it’s necessary to have a closer look at config, it’s wise to adapt config to latest ROS defaults.