pfSense

Oddly there is no code (2.2.x or 2.3) to process the "Apply" button. In 2.2 this does no harm, in 2.3 it did.

For now I have made a work-around in that clicking the "Apply" button displays a banner advising the user to reboot the firewall for the changes to take effect. THis is at lease slightly better than 2.2.x :)

It doesn't/shouldn't require a reboot to activate the settings though. If you actually press save on the main screen instead of Apply, the override entries get updated successfully.

Looks like the Apply action should run this part:

            // Reload filter (we might need to sync to CARP hosts)
            filter_configure();
            /* Update resolv.conf in case the interface bindings exclude localhost. */
            system_resolvconf_generate();
            /* Start or restart dhcpleases when it's necessary */
            system_dhcpleases_configure();
            if ($retval == 0) {
                clear_subsystem_dirty('hosts');
            }

The "Apply" button is now updated via jQuery to submit the main form (instead of the form created by the alert box) thereby restoring the original behavior.

Applied in changeset commit:c85b1242ae66f855512813ad97b4963e1589abb6.

This works OK now -- we had some discussion in chat last night about making it consistently ask for apply everywhere though. I'll open a separate ticket for that.