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    ^This Starting about 18 months ago, I began to receive an attempted log in to OpenVPN on port 1194 once every day. I have *never* used asuscomm.com DDNS. When I changed away from the default port 1194 (follwing the advice of ColinTaylor and others) the attempted logins stopped. The theory is...
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    [Release] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.13 is now available

    For me this is reason enough not to use any of the Trend Micro features. Especially as my 3-hours-away RT-AC86U may not come up again after a scheduled reboot.
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    [Release] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.13 is now available

    If you switch your ISP from cable to DSL you will get a different public IP address. Might this be significant ?
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    Change in loopback in 384.12 ?

    I also found this inconvenient. I don't know the answer to the specific question, but I can suggest a work around. If you always access the NAS by its IP address within your home network (for example 192.168.1.xx) then it does not matter whether you are accessing from inside or outside your...
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    upgrade firmware via SSH?

    For some purposes, any non-alphanumeric characters appear to be stored in %nn notation, so take up 3 of the 16 maximum allowed. This was a couple of years ago, but it is probably the same now. (I don't remember which particular services - it could be SSH or OpenVPN, not sure, but it caught me...
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    Time zone bug

    I think confusion arises because the clocks change at exactly the same moment (01:00 UTC) in Central Europe as in UK and Ireland. As local time in Central Europe is always 1 hour ahead of UK and Ireland, the clocks change at different *local* times. So in Ireland and the UK, In Winter, this...
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    Fixing a Small Business Network

    Success ! :-) Your daughter too !
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    Constant "No Internet Access" Win10 Network Icon

    It one time Malwarebytes was supposedly the "go to" cleaning tool for PCs infected with viruses. Would these negative feelings towards WFC (now owned by Malwarebytes) also extend to Malwarebytes other products ?
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    Entering static dhcp thru command line, is this how?

    That's quite possible :-) But if you type it into a script which you then run from a USB stick, you can run the script again every time you completely reset, without any further typing. An added plus for me is that it's much easier to check a script for mis-types, and if necessary correct...
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    My Unenlightened View of VPN Tunnels

    Yes, we tried accessing the database base application *in the same building* through half a dozen switches (back in the days of 100 Ethernet), and the performance was terrible! So we used Terminal Services and that worked very well. Later on we had very good experience with Citrix (very...
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    My Unenlightened View of VPN Tunnels

    I am using Excel and Word to create / edit / save small spreadsheets and documents. They take a few seconds to save (over a 5 / 0.5Mb/s link) but apart from that it seems to work perfectly. Windows Explorer also works fine, and a file management program called Ztree. (Off Topic: Ztree is...
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    My Unenlightened View of VPN Tunnels

    I am gradually working towards something similar, but making slow progress since real life keeps getting in the way :-) You are already much further advanced than I am. I decided to go with OpenVPN as implemented in the Merlin builds, since there is a lot of information and experience...
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    USB drive or NAS

    Another vote here for the Synology DS-2xx series. I am very happy with them.
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    [ SOLVED ] Can't remove file in /jffs

    Back in stone-age DOS days, del *vsftp.postconf would delete ALL files in the directory, which had the extension ".postconf ". The "vsftp" part would have been totally ignored. (It was documented in the DOS 2.0 manual, but rather hidden away.) I once used a command line as above, wiped...
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    How often do you guys reboot?

    Just had to reboot because the telco sent me a new modem. Uptime on RT-AC86U was 113 days.
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    Tutorial How to setup a VPN Server with Asus routers 380.68 updated 08.24

    I originally set up OpenVPN Server with the default port 1194. Starting about a year ago, I noticed in the system log that a connection attempt to the OpenVPN server was made at least once every day. Fortunately, I am not using a default admin user id or password, and so the connection...
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    Merlin Password Length

    Found it. The restriction was in SSH / Putty. https://www.snbforums.com/threads/login-password-too-secure.29775/#post-230945
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    Merlin Password Length

    I discovered about 3 years ago that somewhere in the code, a non-alphanumeric character seems to be handled as 3 bytes. So if you include (for example) a minus sign in the password, the maximum length (as seen by a human) reduces to 14 characters. It's a long time ago and I don't remember the...
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    comparing two router models manfactured within 6 months of each other

    Possibly they envision the router being used at one end of a VPN link between 2 routers. If one end of the link already has a non-typical IP address range, in most cases it will not overlap with the IP address range at the other end of the link. So the VPN becomes easier to set up and one...
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    How to block a URL ? Doesn't appear to be working

    I tried this a few weeks ago and found that (in your example) it will not work if you include the ".com". Just type in the name of the website without anything else. You may have to wait a few minutes for it to become active. (This is for RT-AC86U running Merlin 384.6 - presumably other...
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