I recently had some problems where I (thought I had) uploaded a config file but the contents of the config file did not seem to have taken effect.
For one thing, when you hit the upload button in the web GUI, there is a progress indicator that gives no percentage-done or anything reassuring but just goes on and on and on for I don’t know how many minutes. I am not even sure that it is a finite wait?
I think I have always lost my patience after an eternity and have first tried hitting refresh in the browser or have assumed that it is done and have then gone off to some other page in the web GUI. If you hit refresh after a long while, I can't remember what you then see, but I think it just looks like it is done.
However, I suspect that it isn't ‘done’ at all. If you go back to the configuration ie save / load config page then what then happens is that after a second or so it comes up with a message and starts rebooting. This takes an absolute age too, something like two minutes [!] and only after a reboot does the new uploaded config get put into effect.
So watch out. Make sure you see a reboot after you upload a config file.
Don’t try making changes and saving it after an upload - like I just did - until after a reboot otherwise the saved second config might well be based on the really old config state for all I know.
I would be grateful if others could confirm my experiences of the GUI behaviour. Are you seeing the same things?
