[ASUS RT-AC87U] ISP Hostname character problem

[Emirikol]

Hello, I'm pretty new here but I have an important question, I'm from Spain and I have a FTTH with the Vodafone ISP, the router they provide is just trash so i decided to replace it with the Asus RT-AC87U but i should specify a hostname (WAN > Special ISP requirement > Hostname) but the hostname is just like VFHXXXXX/XXXXX and i get an error message which says i can't use the "/" char, is there any way to put the hostname i need? i mean with official asuswrt, merlin or whatever... please help i'm chained to a trash router
Thanks in advance

 

[wouterv]

Double check with your ISP what you need to fill in as host name.
Host names can only contain alphanumeric chracters (Aa to Zz and 0 to 9) and the hyphen (-).
The character / is used as separater in the folder pathname on a given host (as you can see in the address bar of your browser).

 

[Emirikol]

Double check with your ISP what you need to fill in as host name.
Host names can only contain alphanumeric chracters (Aa to Zz and 0 to 9) and the hyphen (-).
The character / is used as separater in the folder pathname on a given host (as you can see in the address bar of your browser).

Thanks for your reply. My ISP does not provide any support in order to change the router they provide but is documented you should use as hostname a chain like VFHXXXXXXXX/YYYYYYYY where XXXX is your user identifier and YYYYYYYY is your account password (there are other user and password used for the ppoe connection). This is a problem because there is no way to put the / in the hostname, i have read some people did it with a Mikrotik router or modifying /etc/config/network in openwrt but no one has posted how to do it and i'm pretty frustrated.

Thanks again.

 

[wouterv]

It seems your ISP is using the Hostname in a unofficial way. I looked at the Linksys GUI, they even no longer provide this optional Hostname entry field with PPPoE.
Hopefully someone with insight in the router firmware code and filesystem can help you in bypassing the character check.

 

[Emirikol]

It seems your ISP is using the Hostname in a unofficial way. I looked at the Linksys GUI, they even no longer provide this optional Hostname entry field with PPPoE.
Hopefully someone with insight in the router firmware code and filesystem can help you in bypassing the character check.

Vodafone provide a custom router (very limited, it doesn't works well and I may reboot it every hour if I make a decent use of it, it is software limited too, I can't even put it in bridge mode) so I think they can bypass the checks and do whatever they want. As I said before, some people bypassed it changing the config files by ssh but they provide no details so I don't know which router they used or if it was a custom firmware, this is the reason why I'm asking if someone know how to do it, I don't mind to install Merlin or dd-wrt (I don't know if this Asus model support dd-wrt because I can see it in the wiki but not in the download page).

 

[sfx2000]

FYI...

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/fa...names-ssid-passwords-hostnames-domains.31273/

Might consider this, as it's been asked/answered many times over...

 

[Emirikol]

FYI...

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/fa...names-ssid-passwords-hostnames-domains.31273/

Might consider this, as it's been asked/answered many times over...

Thanks for your reply, I know "rules" says I shouldn't use it otherwise oficial Asuswrt would support the / char, this is the reason why I'm asking here if is there anyway to bypass it. It's pretty evident my ISP is not following the rules so, why should I follow them?