Release ASUS RT-AC68U Firmware version 3.0.0.4.386_51722 (2024/11/26)

[wouterv]

Oh right, I forgot I also have a RT-AC68U running as main router and RT-AC1900U as media bridge
That is how it shall be: setup and forget (meaning they bring trouble free Internet through the house).

 

[banger]

 

[banger]

Trying Merlin 14_2 after I couldn't ping my laptop with this firmware. Can with 14_2.

 

[Oniiz86]

@banger So Asus broke the ability to ping with this 386_51722 firmware, that's disappointing, did you perform a hard factory reset before you went to Merlin's 386.14_2 firmware?

 

[banger]

@banger So Asus broke the ability to ping with this 386_51722 firmware, that's disappointing, did you perform a hard factory reset before you went to Merlin's 386.14_2 firmware?

It seems to be a time thing. Am in the middle of diagnosing, I have a mix of Win 11 and Linux PCs and I couldn't remote into the Win 11 from Linux suddenly or ping. So tried a ping from another Linux machine on the WLAN and again no ping. Rebooted didnt fix. But the router could ping the machine from the firmware network tools page.

I would reboot the win 11 machine but am trying to track down a memory leak, Anyway long story short dirty upgrade on the routers to 14_2 and everything is pinging from PC to PC again. Will monitor for a while. Stock was up for 40 days.

 

[wouterv]

Maybe you shall explain more about what you are trying and what fails.
With my W10 laptop wireless behind the RT-AC68U Router and 51772 firmware I can ping the devices on our internal home network (like printer, the Media Bridge, other W11 laptop).
I can not ping my W10 laptop which after a quick check seems by default blocked in the firewall.

 

[banger]

I have always been able to ping other machines on the LAN and remote as I can now with Merlin Firmware. I would do a factory reset but recently I have found adding Mesh nodes very troublesome. Adding Mesh nodes has to be the first thing configured and then sometimes it fails.

I am a bit concerned about memory use in Merlin as with stock for 40 days I ran with 115mb free. After a few hours with Merlin I am down to 95 free. Hmm just checked and it is back to 110 so all good. Now to run for a while and see if the problem re-occurs.

It was strange as I could ping the machine from Network Tools in firmware but from other PCs on the LAN.