For 3rd and last time:
PLEASE leave linux-like interface configuration alone, spare me useless hours reconfiguring my boxes!
Let wireless or ethernet configuration remember old setting from replaced cards. It so useful feature, don’t really know why you are ingnoring my request past 2 or 3 years.
did you write to support@mikrotik.com ? what did they say?
how would you know - is this a new card, or is this a replacement card?
When a device is unplugged, its config could be remembered in a disabled state. When enabling it, ROS could ask for a “apply-to=” setting so we could attach the old config to a newly plugged interface. All Queues and Firewall rules attached to unplugged interface should be reattached to new interface when using “apply-to=” option.
The only real problem is identifying if card is a/b/g or b/g only to apply the settings, and since it can be done easily, config from one wireless card can work on replacement just with inserting.
how would you know - is this a new card, or is this a replacement card?
Why do i care if it is new, replacement or whatever card. Assume one card died for some reason and i want to change it. Power off the device, change the card, power on, and it works.
im almost done with a script that will create temporary bridges, move your nic to it as a port, fix all the rules - then let you replace the card - then it reverses the process on your start back up. Im also thinking i can use the comment field to store something instead of using bridges, but that will be determine by which one works more reliably.
i hate when I have to move a routeros install to a new machine and basically have to reconfigure every rule that referenced the NICs. I feel your pain …