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 51722 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.

 

[wouterv]

Ping is often blocked in firewalls, maybe not in older firmware or software, but it can get blocked in any software or firmware update.
In case of trouble in your router, my first suggestion is always to always revert to factory defaults, not load an old configuration file and manual configuring the bare minimum as required for the purpose.

 

[Oniiz86]

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.

@wouterv So it seems the 386_51772 firmware is not at fault, it appears to be a configuration issue for some strange reason but Merlin's 386.14_2 firmware has no such issues for @banger, @wouterv would you be able to test your W10 laptop if it pings ok after unblocking the firewall?

 

[wouterv]

Confirmed that I could not ping the W10 laptop due to a firewall setting, which in turn was caused by "Turn off file and printer sharing".
Setting File and printer sharing to "Turn on file and printer sharing" allows me to ping the W10 laptop:

Which toggles this Firewall setting:

In the W11 laptop file and printer sharing was already on, hence I could ping the W11 laptop: I have turned file and printer sharing off which as expected blocks the ping request.

So for sure my RT-AC68U Router with 51722 firmware does not block ping requests.