386.1 Wifi time scheduling

[bilboSNB]

My time scheduling is broken too, like trying to catch water in a sieve instead of a bucket.

 

[davelian]

I can confirm I am seeing the same difference between stock and Merlin that is reported above - TIME based Parental Controls are not working - AC86U.

iptables also shows NSFW in lieu of DROP for PControls.

@RMerlin Whats going on here ?

 

[dave14305]

@RMerlin Whats going on here ?

This has been the behavior of Merlin for years.

firewall: Network Service rules would only be applied to Parental-con… · RMerl/asuswrt-merlin@f5ea81f

…troled clients if it was enabled. Move rules into a separate chain, and jump to that chain from both the PControl (accept) and the FORWARD chain. To keep changes to a minimum, the "chain&qu...

github.com

 

[homeofwind]

Will this be addressed soon for next release?

 

[dh99999]

This has been the behavior of Merlin for years.

You mean chaining to NSFW?

That may be the case, but there are no entries in the NSFW chain currently, so the traffic is being allowed through, when previously it wasn't.

All I can tell you is that it was working in Merlin 384.19, and works in stock 386.

 

[dave14305]

You mean chaining to NSFW?

That may be the case, but there are no entries in the NSFW chain currently, so the traffic is being allowed through, when previously it wasn't.

All I can tell you is that it was working in Merlin 384.19, and works in stock 386.

I agree it doesn’t work in 386.1 due to a missing DROP at the end of the PControls chain in the filter table. Just not sure how it would have worked in 384.19.

 

[dave14305]

Looks like it’s already fixed for the next release.

rc: re-harmonize firewall.c code with upstream · RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng@858b57b

Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase) - rc: re-harmonize firewall.c code with upstream · RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng@858b57b

github.com

The logdrop statement was moved within the code.

Confirmed: Parental Time Scheduling fixed in 386.2 Alpha 1 build. @RMerlin might want to add it to the change log since it was only committed as a “harmonize code” fix.

 

[wedge11383]

I installed the Alpha build and it did fix the issue I had with parental time controls with some caveats regarding guest networks. The 1st slot of the guest network segregates devices onto a separate subnet. In this configuration, parental time controls do not work for me. When I move the guest network into the second slot, devices are in the same network and blocking works.

If a device is on a seperate subnet, when I try disabling it from the device list, it states the IP of the device is unacceptable.

In either config, the blocked device on a guest network can't reach the splash page telling them it's been blocked. I believe this is due to the intranet access being blocked but is this really expected behavior?

 

[dh99999]

Can also confirm that TIME based scheduling with parental controls is fixed in 386.2_alpha1-g18f27b0693.

Thanks All.

 

[bobhope]

Do you know if the "block" and "disable" functions are also fixed in this ab release?

 

[homeofwind]

Can also confirm that TIME based scheduling with parental controls is fixed in 386.2_alpha1-g18f27b0693.

Thanks All.

which router you are using? I

 

[bobhope]

which router you are using?

rt86acu

 

[bilboSNB]

Can also confirm that TIME based scheduling with parental controls is fixed in 386.2_alpha1-g18f27b0693. ac86u

Thank you @RMerlin

 

[dh99999]

which router you are using? I

RT-AC86U

 

[homeofwind]

RT-AC86U

good to know-assume AX86U can work as well?

 

[FxMac]

good to know-assume AX86U can work as well?

confirmed AX86U is working with 386.2 alpha1.

 

[homeofwind]

confirmed AX86U is working with 386.2 alpha1.

good news!

 

[mvadu]

386.1_2 has been released, and its release notes does mention fixing this issue. Thanks @RMerlin for damn quick turnover.

Edit: update the firmware version quoted

 

[L&LD]

@mvadu RMerlin 386.2 has not been released.

The latest currently is 386.1_2.

 

[mvadu]

@mvadu RMerlin 386.2 has not been released.

The latest currently is 386.1_2.

Thanks for pointing it out.. I was indeed referring to 386.1_2 released few days ago which mentions fixing parental control bug.