Asuswrt-Merlin 3.0.0.4.374.32 is out

[RMerlin]

nmbd[504]: [2013/08/25 07:20:51, 0] nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:register_name_response(130)
Aug 25 07:20:51 nmbd[504]: register_name_response: WINS server at IP 127.0.0.1 rejected our name registration of CHADHOME<1b> IP 69.139.89.143 with error code 5.

nmbd[504]: Doing a node status request to the domain master browser
Aug 25 07:21:21 nmbd[504]: for workgroup CHADHOME at IP 192.168.1.1 failed.


I'm seeing these errors in my SystemLog, anything to be concerned about? CHADHOME is my workgroup for my home network

I see it tried to register with a public IP, which sounds odd to me. What router model? Any special configuration to explain why it would try to use your public IP in Samba?

 

[RMerlin]

Hi Merlin, I have a R66U I had the latest 354.31 installed, did not try the beta 32, but I installed the 354.32 and my Nexus 4 Android phone does not connect to the 5Ghz band anymore, yesterday it did with no issues,my iPad is connected to the 5Ghz band in this moment, I deleted the profile and created it again with no success, the phone can see the 5ghz band but it does not connect to it, but it sees the bnd for someshort time, 5 minutes after now it does not even see the 5Ghz band.
Thanks for the hard work and making a wonderfull router a whole lot better

Try setting your 5 GHz to a different channel. I have no problem connecting with my own N4 here.

 

[RMerlin]

Just wondering does this firmware have SYN cookies enabled?
http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html

It's enabled by default on the N16/N66/AC66. The option isn't enabled in the AC56U kernel however, but I could add it.

And is it possible to disable layer 7 filtering?
"Layer 7 filtering or shaping is identifying traffic at layer 7 (Application Layer) of the OSI model. Instead of shaping/filtering based on the port and source/destination, you are identifying a stream based on its contents. This is also sometimes called deep packet inspection since it works by looking into the contents of the packets not just the headers. If you're concerned about performance: IPP2P and especially L7 are slower than simple IP, MAC or port matches. L7 can't cope well with encrypted P2P traffic in background while gaming."

The Netfilter module is included, but there are no rules defined. It's only there for people who want to manually create their own rules.

I suppose it also has the changes of the official 3.0.0.4.374.130 asus firmware, since its merged?

It's based on 374_168.

 

[RMerlin]

RMerlin, BTW does the new stable 32 identical with 32.beta3 or there are some changes?

RT-AC66U drivers were updated to the 374_130 version, and a few minor string changes to the webui.

commit 4c6014e7618c53c33c9c10a658fe6ef2bae36f3d
Author: Eric Sauvageau <rmerl@lostrealm.ca>
Date:   Sat Aug 24 21:59:50 2013 -0400

    Bumped version to 374_32 final

commit 18f198d00a6611677611a370a8d0947500057857
Merge: f9bae8d 281f4a9
Author: Eric Sauvageau <rmerl@lostrealm.ca>
Date:   Fri Aug 23 19:19:18 2013 -0700

    Merge pull request #387 from rbrenton/master
    
    Fix EN.dict grammer for login_hint2 and logoutmessage.

commit f9bae8ddda55802dab4bb60c433ad2b487b77476
Merge: f2bd4f6 50e9a17
Author: Eric Sauvageau <rmerl@lostrealm.ca>
Date:   Fri Aug 23 19:16:34 2013 -0700

    Merge pull request #386 from ryzhovau/update_url2
    
    Fixes firmware update URL

commit 281f4a92521a9c82f705b268958589753335ce29
Author: rbrenton <rbrenton@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 23 12:45:52 2013 -0400

    Fix EN.dict grammer for login_hint2 and logoutmessage.

commit 50e9a179952534a437c81f5b06f9020ef1c11816
Author: Alexander Ryzhov <ryzhovau@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 23 14:59:00 2013 +0400

    Fixes firmware update URL

commit f2bd4f663f09c21f8ef79e2aa6e119f7eb521654
Author: Eric Sauvageau <rmerl@lostrealm.ca>
Date:   Wed Aug 21 23:33:03 2013 -0400

    Dated past releases in changelog

commit 5bb1681ae0f2bcc4df915b7774d456b37169d091
Author: Eric Sauvageau <rmerl@lostrealm.ca>
Date:   Wed Aug 21 00:48:30 2013 -0400

    Updated RT-AC66U driver to 374_130 release

 

[RMerlin]

Would I be safe in assuming that prior to upgrading to this release, if you have any custom ip6tables scripts (I, for example have one that just starts a basic ipv6 firewall in /jffs/scripts), that you should off-load and save those scripts as they will not be needed with this release?

in otherwords, I can do all my ipv6 firewalling via the gui now, I don't need to run a custom firewall-start script.

Unless you had some very special firewall rules, the new firewall should allow you to totally remove those scripts. The webui can be found under Firewall -> IPv6 Firewall.

 

[RMerlin]

Looks like even if I logged out of RT-N66U with firmware 374.32 and then close IE10 64bit, it's not actually logging me off. Browsing to the router with its IP just let me go in without asking for credentials. Are you guys seeing this?

Just tested here with IE10 32bit (can't find the 64bit version under Win8), it did re-ask me for my login credentials after I closed and re-opened the browser. Could be that you had another iexplore.exe process running in background, which was caching your httpd basic auth credentials.

 

[cmillar6]

I see it tried to register with a public IP, which sounds odd to me. What router model? Any special configuration to explain why it would try to use your public IP in Samba?

Router model is Ac66u, no special configuration other than specifying my own workgroup in the USB Application - Miscellaneous setting page. Oddly, when I click the workgroup field and type it again the errors go away. If I don't do this the errors appear every 15 minutes in the system log. It only started doing this with 374.72

 

[RMerlin]

Router model is Ac66u, no special configuration other than specifying my own workgroup in the USB Application - Miscellaneous setting page. Oddly, when I click the workgroup field and type it again the errors go away. If I don't do this the errors appear every 15 minutes in the system log. It only started doing this with 374.72

I'm not aware of any change from Asus between 372 and 374 in relation to SMB, but I could take a closer look.

 

[cmillar6]

I'm not aware of any change from Asus between 372 and 374 in relation to SMB, but I could take a closer look.

OK, thanks. I just went back to beta 3 version and the errors went away.

 

[bradyrtech]

Unless you had some very special firewall rules, the new firewall should allow you to totally remove those scripts. The webui can be found under Firewall -> IPv6 Firewall.

Worked like a charm. I snuffed my basic ip6tables firewall-start script, rebooted, verified that my ipv6 client was now "exposed", then upgraded to 374.32, ran the same test again, my ipv6 client is now no longer "exposed"

Awesome work! This should go a long way towards helping clients from being "caught with their pants down" so-to-speak, when it comes to IPv6 inbound traffic.

 

[bluepoint]

Just tested here with IE10 32bit (can't find the 64bit version under Win8), it did re-ask me for my login credentials after I closed and re-opened the browser. Could be that you had another iexplore.exe process running in background, which was caching your httpd basic auth credentials.

I don't know what happened but since I moved to SDK6 back to SDK5(374.32) I cannot reproduce what I've seen before. I must have let IE save the credentials.

 

[tijaune]

I'm back with this Merlin firmware after tryout a week with Tomato Shibby on rt-ac66u. I was having too weak and unstable 5 Ghz with iPads. Pretty solid since this morning.

 

[shooter40sw]

Try setting your 5 GHz to a different channel. I have no problem connecting with my own N4 here.

it was on 36,changed it to auto, on 149 ad did not connect, changed the password to 8 zeros, changed the SSID name, and I cant get my N4 to connect. The iPad does connect, It can be a bug with the band on the phone because I have read someissues on the 4,3 JB firmware but it was working before the router update, thanks

 

[GoNz0]

quite a few mobile devices can't see above channel 140, connecting to 136-140 is within the scope of most mobile devices.

 

[shooter40sw]

quite a few mobile devices can't see above channel 140, connecting to 136-140 is within the scope of most mobile devices.

My nexus 4 did connect with the 149 and even the 161, in 40Hz, I tested most channels looking for the best one, I just left it at 36, but today it stopped connecting, I know that android 4.3 for my phone it introduced a bug that I needed to turn off and turn it back on to it to connect to the 5Gz Wifi, did not happen with 4.2, but I could connect, now with the router update not restarting the phone turning on and off WIFI does not connect

 

[rlcronin]

nmbd[504]: [2013/08/25 07:20:51, 0] nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:register_name_response(130)
Aug 25 07:20:51 nmbd[504]: register_name_response: WINS server at IP 127.0.0.1 rejected our name registration of CHADHOME<1b> IP 69.139.89.143 with error code 5.

nmbd[504]: Doing a node status request to the domain master browser
Aug 25 07:21:21 nmbd[504]: for workgroup CHADHOME at IP 192.168.1.1 failed.


I'm seeing these errors in my SystemLog, anything to be concerned about? CHADHOME is my workgroup for my home network

Seeing these as well, for what its worth.

Aug 26 11:32:57 nmbd[461]: [2013/08/26 11:32:57, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:domain_master_node_status_fail(248)
Aug 26 11:32:57 nmbd[461]: domain_master_node_status_fail:
Aug 26 11:32:57 nmbd[461]: Doing a node status request to the domain master browser
Aug 26 11:32:57 nmbd[461]: for workgroup XXXXXXXXX at IP 192.168.1.1 failed.
Aug 26 11:32:57 nmbd[461]: Cannot sync browser lists.
--
bc

 

[rlcronin]

Seeing these as well, for what its worth.

Aug 26 11:32:57 nmbd[461]: [2013/08/26 11:32:57, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:domain_master_node_status_fail(248)
Aug 26 11:32:57 nmbd[461]: domain_master_node_status_fail:
Aug 26 11:32:57 nmbd[461]: Doing a node status request to the domain master browser
Aug 26 11:32:57 nmbd[461]: for workgroup XXXXXXXXX at IP 192.168.1.1 failed.
Aug 26 11:32:57 nmbd[461]: Cannot sync browser lists.
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bc

I found some suggestion (on a Samba-related website) that the cause of the error 5 might be due to a corrupted wins.dat file. The advice was to stop nmbd and smbd and to delete that file, then restart. I couldn't find the file. So, I decided to shut off the WINS Server and Master Browser options in the router GUI and reboot the router. After the boot finished I turned those two options back on. I figured shutting the options off and back on might clearup the corrupted file. Since I turned those options back on I have yet to see the error messages recur, so it might indeed be fixed (although not a lot of time has gone by, so I may be jumping to a premature conclusion). Take that for what its worth.
--
bc

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Just flashed the new version all seems good so far.

Update: I noticed the network device list works when you first click it but if you hit refresh it does not show all the clients and the wheel just spins forever. Not a huge deal but thought I would mention it.

 

[primitivo]

Hi everyone, I am new here although have been following the forum for some time. Great job RMerlin with software development for Asus routers.

I just bought RT-AC56U, installed Merlin firmware 3.0.0.4.374.32 and have been trying to install Astrill applet following steps provided on Astrill website.

I did enable JFFS partition and also formatted it as per instructions from Astrill website but I am unable to install the Applet properly:

WARNING: Default OpenVPN binary will be used. Stealth Mode is not available.
WARNING: JFFS is not mounted. Astrill applet will be lost on reboot
Installed successfully !
Astrill is installed under menu 'Astrill VPN' on the left
If you don't see 'Astrill VPN' menu on the left, please hit CTRL+F5 or clear browser cache.

Even when I click on "Astrill VPN" menu on the left side, I get blank page so something went wrong.

The other time when JFFS seems to be mounted properly I get something like this:

Installing Astrill VPN binary... FAILED
WARNING: Default OpenVPN binary will be used. Stealth Mode is not available.
Installed successfully !
Astrill is installed under menu 'Astrill VPN' on the left
If you don't see 'Astrill VPN' menu on the left, please hit CTRL+F5 or clear browser cache.

Same blank page when I click on "Astrill VPN" on the left side.

I am not sure what do I do wrong here? Is USB disk necessary for this kind of Applet installation? Has something been changed in the newest firmware which blocks installing such Applet? Astrill says Applet is Merlin firmware and RT-AC56U router compatible.

 

[SjoerdNLD]

Just flashed the new version all seems good so far.

Update: I noticed the network device list works when you first click it but if you hit refresh it does not show all the clients and the wheel just spins forever. Not a huge deal but thought I would mention it.

Same here, only 5 where should be 9, also after rebooting. (RT-AC66U)