Bug #5040
closed
interfaces.php "copy my MAC" mis-feature reappeared
Added by Chris Buechler over 8 years ago.
Updated over 8 years ago.
Description
The "Copy my MAC" button on interfaces.php was removed because the only thing it typically accomplished was breaking things (the copied system no longer worked because of the resulting MAC conflict and caused people all kinds of confusion). It's reappeared.
- Status changed from Confirmed to Feedback
- Assignee changed from Anonymous to Chris Buechler
Darn. It was my first ever fixed m0n0wall bug :(
Removed as requested (but only with comments, just in case).
Wait, is this fixed, or not?
If it's fixed, why are we taking it out?
When converting the page I found that the ARP lookup was returning multiple MACs concatenated together ebcause my IP was (say) 192.168.2.11 and the table also knew about 192.168.2.110, 192.168.2.112 and the grep wasn't taking that into account.
I fixed that piece, but Chris is saying that this is a stupid option because it typically generates a MAC conflict. So it wasn't broken in that sense, just not very sensible..
- Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
it's gone, same as in 2.2.x, so this is fixed.
There is no reason to have it, the only thing it accomplished was people complaining that when they used it, it broke one machine or everything, as a MAC conflict will do.
Kill Bill wrote:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/bootstrap/src/usr/local/www/interfaces.php#L1768
I'll kill whatever's left, if anything, once interfaces.php has settled. It's actively being worked on.
Overall, the whole process seems to be incredible bug generating chaos. :-(
can't replace nearly the entire web interface without breaking a few eggs. Or all of them, initially, in this case. But we're fixing them. It's a huge undertaking that's most of the way there, but still a work in progress.
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