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I also only wanted to block ads on the router . About 5 years ago I found out about Asuswrt-Merlin.
Today I own 7 Asus routers and have spent countless hours on the scripts I freely give away on this board.
I'm sorry to hear your router appears to be bricked. That 87U is a special model and the one I have has a dead WAN port. But it's still good as a test unit for my scripts.
@thelonelycoder, I'm writing this in a separate reply, as you're the author of this thread and the creator of many of the scripts being discussed.
I didn't mean to imply that your script is what caused my router to stop working, and in the case my post led you to believe that, I apologize if the wording wasn't clearer. I appreciate your hard work and was just venting out my frustration after having a working and painstakingly configured device one second, and a paperweight the next.
I did mention in a previous comment that my router had already exhibited the same behavior, long before I dabbled with amtm and without any interference from my part. I still don't know what caused those issues to appear, in the first place. At the time, my modem had switched back from bridged to NAT (with my ISP's default settings), so I suspect it received a remote update from them. Not sure how that would affect my router, however.
As for the most recent occasion, I was trying different USB devices. The first one I tried (a SanDisk Ultra Fit) was showing up when connected to any of the two ports, but as "unmounted". The following two I tried (both SanDisk Cruzer - 64 and 256GB; both formated as NTFS; both working properly under Windows) didn't even show up. And after a reboot to try to fix that issue, the router went silent.
Is it possible that the USB devices short-circuited the device, somehow? Or was it just a coincidence that the router bricked/died at the exact same time?
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