[Alpha] Preview builds for Asuswrt-Merlin 380.61

[john9527]

I have an ASUS RT-AC87U router. When using firmware 380.60 Beta 2 or 380.61 Alpha 2 the router seems to "ping" my desktop computer (Win 10) about every 3 to 5 seconds.

I do know that if I turn off Enable UPnP Media Server the problem goes away.

Those are SSDP broadcasts...and my first thought is that this would be expected if the media server is active (it's broadcasting it's existence on the network and looking for clients). 3-5 secs between broadcasts does seem to be a bit higher frequency than I would expect, but I don't think it's anything to really be concerned about. It's possible ASUS may have made a change in this area to address the problem where some DLNA clients couldn't reliably detect the media server...I can't tell from your post if this is new behavior for you or you just noticed it on the later levels.

 

[john9527]

Strangely enough though, while the clients are claiming very strong signal, and the GUI is showing decent 5G speed on the router, it is showing low signal in areas where the clients themselves are self reporting strong signal. This is not new. I've noticed that there is a disagreement between the ASUS GUI and the clients for quite some time. I do not know what to make of it.

Nothing unusual here....the clients are reporting on the signal they see from the router, the router is reporting on the signal it sees from the clients. The router will have the stronger power output. Going to the next step, this is why increasing the router power level won't always produce a better connection.

 

[Nurofen]

Icon is not displayed mycloud Windows 10 pro x64


After restarting the laptop appears for 10-15 minutes then disappears.



ASUS RT-AC87U Firmware version 3.0.0.4_380.3459
Firmware everything works.

 

[R1-Limited]

I have set my DHCP lease time to be 5 days, devices still updating every 24 hours which is default
Still Getting that NTP Sync issue, probably why Lease aint working
As yu can see I am also getting requests

Jul 27 06:13:52 crond[451]: time disparity of 520633 minutes detected
Jul 27 06:15:10 hour monitor: ntp sync fail, will retry after 120 sec
Jul 27 06:17:14 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 172.16.1.9 ac:bc:32:a6:b6:55

Jul 27 23:00:22 disk_monitor: Got SIGALRM...
Jul 28 04:01:01 kernel: device br0 entered promiscuous mode
Jul 28 04:01:06 kernel: device br0 left promiscuous mode
Jul 28 07:36:20 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 172.16.1.9 ac:bc:32:a6:b6:55

Jul 29 01:10:48 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 172.16.1.9 ac:bc:32:a6:b6:55
Jul 29 01:10:48 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPACK(br0) 172.16.1.9 ac:bc:32:a6:b6:55 Pamelas-MBP
Jul 29 03:11:12 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 172.16.1.9 ac:bc:32:a6:b6:55
Jul 29 03:11:12 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPACK(br0) 172.16.1.9 ac:bc:32:a6:b6:55 Pamelas-MBP
Jul 29 04:01:21 kernel: device br0 entered promiscuous mode
Jul 29 04:01:26 kernel: device br0 left promiscuous mode
Jul 29 14:59:57 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 172.16.1.47 1c:5c:f2:47:c1:7d

Jul 29 16:35:43 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 172.16.1.9 ac:bc:32:a6:b6:55
Jul 29 16:35:43 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPACK(br0) 172.16.1.9 ac:bc:32:a6:b6:55 Pamelas-MBP

Jul 30 04:01:12 kernel: device br0 entered promiscuous mode
Jul 30 04:01:20 kernel: device br0 left promiscuous mode
Jul 30 06:38:05 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 172.16.1.3 60:a4:4c:56:c7:d9
Jul 30 06:38:05 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPACK(br0) 172.16.1.3 60:a4:4c:56:c7:d9 Johns64-PC
Jul 30 06:53:00 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 172.16.1.3 60:a4:4c:56:c7:d9
Jul 30 06:53:00 dnsmasq-dhcp[443]: DHCPACK(br0) 172.16.1.3 60:a4:4c:56:c7:d9 Johns64-PC

From My PC
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, July 30, 2016 6:53:02 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, August 04, 2016 6:53:02 AM

My PC has been running 24/7 the past week, no reboots

 

[eddiez]

Icon is not displayed mycloud Windows 10 pro x64


After restarting the laptop appears for 10-15 minutes then disappears.



ASUS RT-AC87U Firmware version 3.0.0.4_380.3459
Firmware everything works.

Is the WD device going to sleep?

 

[RMerlin]

Strange..... After reverting back to 380.60B2 on my AC5300 I have full access again to all pages again including this one. I'm also up to full speed (250/100)...

I clearly doupt that my Swedish ISP will blacklist several newspapers in sweden and several public stores...Danish kitchens and information about dishwashers.

The blacklisting isn't done by ISPs, it's done by the websites.

Compare your WAN IP to determine if it changes when you change firmware. Otherwise, I can't see any technical reason that could make a firmware version impact specific websites - the router doesn't do anything beside provide name resolution, and route traffic to those sites. And if it was truly a firmware issue, it would be far more widespread - so far you're the only user reporting such an issue.

 

[RMerlin]

I reset my router and try starting with just Network(Samba) Share/Cloud disk which I it every day, RAM usage went up by 20MB within 2days, but I'm not sure if having 15 more users will cause about that much RAM increase or not. Do you have Network Share/Cloud disk enable?

I don't use my router for sharing files, the USB disk is only used to store local development and test files.

Memory usage WILL increase if you share data over SMB however, since RAM gets used for caching disk data. This is perfectly normal.

 

[Kronyx]

Is the 3200 is supported ? Why we always get the upgrade after everyone ? I know it's Asus the problem but I feel like I did a mistake to buy this model ...

 

[RMerlin]

Since upgrading to alpha 2 on the 88u, I seem to be getting stronger, more reliable, 5G signal. It was not bad before, but clients seem to be picking up stronger signal from areas where they did not before. For example, I was just using my ipad pro out on my roof deck, and it indicated it had excellent 5G signal. In the past, I would have had to switch back to 2.4.

Strangely enough though, while the clients are claiming very strong signal, and the GUI is showing decent 5G speed on the router, it is showing low signal in areas where the clients themselves are self reporting strong signal. This is not new. I've noticed that there is a disagreement between the ASUS GUI and the clients for quite some time. I do not know what to make of it.

The information is relative. Wifi is a bi-directional communication. The router transmit at a much higher power level than a low powered client, therefore clients will get a strong signal, but the router will receive a weaker response from those low-powered clients.

 

[Nurofen]

Is the WD device going to sleep?

yes.

ASUS RT-AC87U Firmware version 3.0.0.4_380.3459
the icon does not disappear

 

[RMerlin]

Is the 3200 is supported ? Why we always get the upgrade after everyone ? I know it's Asus the problem but I feel like I did a mistake to buy this model ...

The RT-AC3200 is an oddball. It's based on an SDK version shared with no other models, and it's not a flagship model either, so it gets less frequent updates from Asus.

I don't see why that would be a mistake. Routers are purchased to share an Internet connection and provide wifi. If it works properly, then it's doing it's job as expected.

 

[bayern1975]

Is the 3200 is supported ? Why we always get the upgrade after everyone ? I know it's Asus the problem but I feel like I did a mistake to buy this model ...

3200 is supported....look at first post and take a link....

sent from Kodi 17 Krypton

 

[RMerlin]

I have set my DHCP lease time to be 5 days, devices still updating every 24 hours which is default
Still Getting that NTP Sync issue, probably why Lease aint working

Lease renewals requests are generated by the clients, not by the router. All the router can do is accept lease renewal requests as clients send them in, the router does not automatically issue leases.

 

[eddiez]

yes.

ASUS RT-AC87U Firmware version 3.0.0.4_380.3459
the icon does not disappear

Your issue is a Windows issue I assume. Windows has a setting to view unattached devices or don't show them. Most probably the new firmware correctly shuts down on sleeping devices and Windows thus removes the icon.

 

[XIII]

Bought an RT-AC68u for my parents and installed this firmware.

Running fine like on my RT-AC66u so far!

 

[MarkRH]

Since the 26th, no WAN ISP DHCP messages. Internet has been fine since the 28th after I cleared the log. Saw one of these for the first time:

Jul 30 04:21:57 kernel: nvram: consolidating space!

Which did seem to work.

 

[Deleted member 48827]

Upgraded AC56U from 380.60_beta2 to 380.61_alpha2 with no problems, but didn't have any problems with beta2 either. Using the following features:

DSL PPPoE WAN
IPV6 tunnel 6rd
OpenVPN client with selective routing using CIDR
Traditional QOS with fq_codel
Traffic monitor log to USB 2.0 flash drive
DNLA server from USB 2.0 flash drive
2.4 GHz wireless N
Manually assigned DHCP
LAN static routing

Thank you RMerlin!

 

[R1-Limited]

Lease renewals requests are generated by the clients, not by the router. All the router can do is accept lease renewal requests as clients send them in, the router does not automatically issue leases.

Totally understand the router however will respond with the what lease time it will offer. I shows my PC set for 5 days. I have other devices exhibiting the same behavior even though the lease is shown as next renew in 5 days I see the logs on the router showing request / offers. Which is odd and wonder if it is related to NTP unable to sync?

I will be resetting the devices to test this, if not I will revert back to the .60

 

[zenmota]

Those are SSDP broadcasts...and my first thought is that this would be expected if the media server is active (it's broadcasting it's existence on the network and looking for clients). 3-5 secs between broadcasts does seem to be a bit higher frequency than I would expect, but I don't think it's anything to really be concerned about. It's possible ASUS may have made a change in this area to address the problem where some DLNA clients couldn't reliably detect the media server...I can't tell from your post if this is new behavior for you or you just noticed it on the later levels.

I was thinking the same thing, that it was the media server broadcasting that it is out there.

No, I do not have the problem with firmware 380.59 (seems like it just "pings" the computer every once in awhile, nothing like every 5 seconds) only with 380.60 beta 2 and 380.61 alpha 2. You may be right that ASUS made a change to make the media server broadcast more often. My concern was that with all that media server "pinging" my computer, it might cause some lag when being on the internet (surfing the web, online gaming, etc...) even though it didn't seem to. Maybe it will change in a later firmware version or the release version.

Thanks for your input......

 

[john9527]

Totally understand the router however will respond with the what lease time it will offer. I shows my PC set for 5 days. I have other devices exhibiting the same behavior even though the lease is shown as next renew in 5 days I see the logs on the router showing request / offers. Which is odd and wonder if it is related to NTP unable to sync?

I will be resetting the devices to test this, if not I will revert back to the .60

Is your PC connected via Ethernet or wireless? Is it set to sleep after a certain period of time? At least for wireless clients, they will renew the lease when they come out of sleep. Not sure about wired (my wired PCs are set to never sleep).