[Alpha] Preview builds for Asuswrt-Merlin 380.61

[Wutikorn]

Has anyone tried Dual WAN failback function? Does it work when the system switch back to Primary network? For my router with my PPPOE connection as primary and Android 3G as secondary, it does failover to secondary WAN normally, but when it failback to Primary WAN, Primary WAN is disconnected a few seconds after it failback. This keeps occurring until I restart the router, which also turn off secondary WAN off until I turn it on again. Does anyone have similar problem? Or is it just me?

 

[hjohan13]

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.

Hi again.
No affence, absolutly not my meaning of being rude or nasty in any way. I very much enjoy and like your "special builds" But I really don't understand why every singel build (done the all from 45) works om my AC68. But on my AC5300 57 and 58 works very well, 59 is a disaster, 60B2 best ever and 61A2 is a complete nightmare. Going back to 60B2 and everything works absolutly great....It can't be something with the websites....

 

[Wutikorn]

Hi again.
No affence, absolutly not my meaning of being rude or nasty in any way. I very much enjoy and like your "special builds" But I really don't understand why every singel build (done the all from 45) works om my AC68. But on my AC5300 57 and 58 works very well, 59 is a disaster, 60B2 best ever and 61A2 is a complete nightmare. Going back to 60B2 and everything works absolutly great....It can't be something with the websites....

From what I heard about RMerlin saying that your router MAC address will be different by changing firmware resulting in getting different IPs that may have been blacklisted, I think what you can try is to use one specific MAC address on whatever firmware you want to try so that you will be likely to get same MAC address as see if you are still blocked.

 

[hjohan13]

From what I heard about RMerlin saying that your router MAC address will be different by changing firmware resulting in getting different IPs that may have been blacklisted, I think what you can try is to use one specific MAC address on whatever firmware you want to try so that you will be likely to get same MAC address as see if you are still blocked.

Sorry...but I really must be stupid....How can my router change MAC adress when changing firmware? My WAN IP has been the same since we moved here a year ago, no matter what router I use. Anybody...Help...

 

[eddiez]

Sorry...but I really must be stupid....How can my router change MAC adress when changing firmware? My WAN IP has been the same since we moved here a year ago, no matter what router I use. Anybody...Help...

A clean firmware change simply can not cause this website blocking. It should also occur with everyone. My best guess it's a DNS thing. So just try setting WAN dns to Google (8.8.8.8) only.

 

[hellboy2]

Updated my RT-AC68U from 380.59_0 to 380.61_alpha2 .. and it looks okay.

Subjective observation is, that wi-fi signals, both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz seems slightly weaker than before. Maybe 3-10 dBm on RSSI measuered by router. No client dropped yet (30 min), so it may just be my imagination.

Speedtest.net (ookla) shows usual results for 5GHz wi-fi clients, about 100-110 mbit/s download, which is my ISP's limit.

A guest had problems, because DHCP server used (blank) as default gateway. It seemed to work, when I specifically set it to router's IP (192.168.1.1). This was both on 380.59 and 380.61a2. Most guests had no trouble with the blank gateway, so I don't think this is a bug in router's firmware. They all run Windows 10, but this one had been on another network before with gateway 192.168.0.1, while the others had same gateway 192.168.1.1 on their own home networks.

 

[Wutikorn]

Sorry...but I really must be stupid....How can my router change MAC adress when changing firmware? My WAN IP has been the same since we moved here a year ago, no matter what router I use. Anybody...Help...

If you are sure that your WAN IP remains the same even though you move between firmware, then you have no need to try changing MAC address. Maybe you should try as eddiez suggests.

It seemed to work, when I specifically set it to router's IP (192.168.1.1).

Just a reminder, don't forget to set it back to automatically get IP address from gateway when the guest leaves.

 

[hellboy2]

don't forget to set it back to automatically get IP address from gateway when the guest leaves.

Why? The router stays where it is, and keeps its local IP, so router's DHCP server can keep serving that IP as gateway address for its clients.

It was the DHCP client on guest's Win10 PC, that didn't get the router's IP as the PC's gateway IP. We did not change anything on the PC, only on the router's DHCP server, and then issued "ipconfig /renew". I added a static client IP, so we could see that it was really renewed with a new client IP. He could switch to his mobile hotspot (got internet connection), and then back to my router (no internet connection before we updated DHCP server settings).

It looks like a Win 10 DHCP client problem, which could be circumvented by simple setup on my router.

The relevance is, that the DHCP gateway address got blanked, when I updated firmware from 380.59 to 380.61a2. The static IP table did not get blanked (and no, I did not do factory reset - we need an export/import of the static DHCP table)

 

[Wutikorn]

Why? The router stays where it is, and keeps its local IP, so router's DHCP server can keep serving that IP as gateway address for its clients.

It was the DHCP client on guest's Win10 PC, that didn't get the router's IP as the PC's gateway IP. We did not change anything on the PC, only on the router's DHCP server, and then issued "ipconfig /renew". I added a static client IP, so we could see that it was really renewed with a new client IP. He could switch to his mobile hotspot (got internet connection), and then back to my router (no internet connection before we updated DHCP server settings).

It looks like a Win 10 DHCP client problem, which could be circumvented by simple setup on my router.

The relevance is, that the DHCP gateway address got blanked, when I updated firmware from 380.59 to 380.61a2. The static IP table did not get blanked (and no, I did not do factory reset - we need an export/import of the static DHCP table)

That's my fault, I taught you change the setting on the guest's device to ask for IP from specified DHCP server IP, which if it were in that case, the device wouldn't be able to connect to some networks such as public ones that normally do not use 192.168.1.1.

 

[hellboy2]

Network Map -> View (clients) List -> empty list of clients ...?

It worked when I had just upgraded firmware from 380.59_0 to 380.61_alpha2 on my RT-AC68U, maybe not rock solid, but always correct list of clients within a minute. Two hours since router was booted, and now the Network map says "Clients: 9", but the View List is either empty (all) or only shows cabled clients (by interface). Fresh reboot didn't help.

System log -> Wireless log -> correct list of wifi clients.

Same observation with both Firefox on Linux, Chrome on Win 10. and Firefox on Android.

 

[R1-Limited]

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).

My PC is established behind a RT-ac66 running the same firmware alpha2. It is in Media Bridge to the RT-ac68 as the AP.
I am not getting any error on that log and the odd part is the NTP Sync is perfect.

So what I have done for a test. I have reverted back to the Asus 3.0.0.4.380_3831 build on both routers. Cleared logs rebooted and will report tomorrow.

However it appears the NTP Sync fail is on Asus?
Jul 31 07:29:22 hour monitor: ntp sync fail, will retry after 120 sec now runnign the above

 

[mcouture]

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.

I have A2 flashed to my 3200 for almost 2 days. No issues with any connectivity and wifi seems stable. I have had trouble since day one with my 2.4 wifi. I cannot seem to find the reason for disconnects and slow transmit problems. I've tried every channel but cannot get stable 2.4 wifi. 5g is great and wonderfully stable on both radios.

I do show core #2 as being pegged at 100% and overall load trend is 5..... i haven't rebooted since flashing...

 

[RMerlin]

Beta release is now available, please move here for further feedback.

 

[princi]

Yay! Just back from holidays!!

 

[Patje]

Hello Merlin,

Thanks for the new beta-version.
Before I ran the 380.59 version with ab-solution installed and a vpn-server running.
When I connected to my home vpn with my iPhone, I had the benefits of ab-solution on my iPhone.
With 380.61b1 installed, ads aren't blocked on my iPhone when I'm connected to my home vpn.

Is this firmware related or is there something wrong in my setup?


kr.,
Patrick

 

[L&LD]

Hello Merlin,

Thanks for the new beta-version.
Before I ran the 380.59 version with ab-solution installed and a vpn-server running.
When I connected to my home vpn with my iPhone, I had the benefits of ab-solution on my iPhone.
With 380.61b1 installed, ads aren't blocked on my iPhone when I'm connected to my home vpn.

Is this firmware related or is there something wrong in my setup?


kr.,
Patrick

Did you just flash the new firmware (only) or did you do a full reset and then reconfigure (manually) the router to secure it and connect to your ISP afterwards?

 

[Patje]

Did you just flash the new firmware (only) or did you do a full reset and then reconfigure (manually) the router to secure it and connect to your ISP afterwards?

I did a full reset and manually reconfiguration (maybe I missed something).

kr.,
Patrick

 

[L&LD]

I did a full reset and manually reconfiguration (maybe I missed something).

kr.,
Patrick

Maybe it's time to double check everything? Or, as some have found, do a full reset once again and manually configure once more.

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/user-nvram-save-restore-utility-r24.19521/

You may want to use the above link to get a quick text based (human readable) output of your settings (at the very least with this great tool).

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/no...l-and-manual-configuration.27115/#post-205573

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac66u-slow-wan-to-lan.12973/page-3#post-269410

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/faq-nvram-and-factory-default-reset.22822/


The above links may help with getting your router, clients and network to a good known state (i.e. 'fully' reset).

 

[Patje]

Maybe it's time to double check everything? Or, as some have found, do a full reset once again and manually configure once more.

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/user-nvram-save-restore-utility-r24.19521/

You may want to use the above link to get a quick text based (human readable) output of your settings (at the very least with this great tool).

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/no...l-and-manual-configuration.27115/#post-205573

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/rt-ac66u-slow-wan-to-lan.12973/page-3#post-269410

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/faq-nvram-and-factory-default-reset.22822/


The above links may help with getting your router, clients and network to a good known state (i.e. 'fully' reset).

Okay thanks, when there is time I will fully reset the router again

kr.,
Patrick

 

[L&LD]

Okay thanks, when there is time I will fully reset the router again

kr.,
Patrick

No guarantee that this will work, of course. But at least you'll know it isn't a glitch from any carried over settings or variables from a previous firmware.