Asuswrt-Merlin 3.0.0.4.374.33 is out

[F5ing]

New SDK5 version functionality looks great to me (rt-n66u).

One thing, though, I'm still getting:

Oct 4 13:26:43 kernel: eth1: received packet with own address as source address

I flashed back to 270.26b and still got this, so went forward to the new 374.33 and removed the wireless ethernet bridge and still get it.

Is there anything I can do to get a dump of the packet in question, like setting a router software variable in nvram? I'd like to see the MAC addresses in the packet header, specifically, along with the IP addresses, of course. Maybe there's a debug flag or debug level I can set to see what's going on with this? Seems like one should be able to get more information about this kind of thing?

Personally I wouldn't worry about these, unless you notice any particular problem.

That error message comes from the Linux kernel itself, so there's little that I could do to get more info about it - it's not generated by the firmware.

Might this have anything to do with STP? See:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2060349

Based on what I think STP is supposed to accomplish it seems to me it might be related (I'm guessing of course, and would think it has something to do with what your network topology looks like).

 

[F5ing]

i have set it in my computer connection to auto negotiation, full duplex (10mbps, 100mbps and 1Gbps) and half duplex ( 10mbps and 100mbps). the problem still the same and still disconnected. I have checked my rj45 cable using network cable tester and it still fine.

Cat 5e or 6 cable?

 

[mohdradzi]

Cat 5e or 6 cable?

Im using cat5e cable.

 

[Y2010]

In version 3.0.0.4.374.33_0 the USB-application isn't present Download Master.
RT-N16

 

[bill1228]

bill1228, it's about one of kernel modules, not the whole firmware. For the whole firmware blame Broadcom and Asus

Yup. Knew that. Just having some fun.
_-bill

 

[tifozi]

Well after reading all the features supported, the feedback and the great support here from RMerlin, I bit the bullet and finally flashed asuswrt-Merlin on my RT-N16 after running stable on Chinese tomato dualwan mod for around 18 months+

Liking it a lot so far as this is the only N16 firmware that supports IPv6 + Dual Wan. Still have a lot of configurations from the previous firmware to migrate as well as adopt new features provided only in Merlin build. I love the fact that the Secondary WAN port is user selectable unlike tomato dualwan mod!

1)

One thing I wanted to point out and I am sure long time users on this firmware are already aware, if one is coming from dd-wrt or tomato or any other firmware, the port forward works a little different.

Port Range = Single or Multiple ports of the application on the IP you want forwarded to. The local port needs to be left blank unless it is different from the "Port Range" ports. E.g if uTorrent is running on Port 12345, just enter 12345 in the Port Range field and leave local port blank. I was entering 12345 for the local port also and it was completely breaking things as all traffic was getting redirected to the gateway (router) as seen in the Port Forward system log entry that was showing up when Port Range = Local port

Destination     Proto. Port range  Redirect to     Local port
!192.168.1.0    TCP    80          192.168.1.1     18017

After google searching, coming across the following blog gave me the hint on the problem/solution.

linuxplained dot com/setup-port-forwarding-on-router/


2)

Am I correct in assuming that in a DualWAN setup, there is no way to setup both WANs to IPV6? I only see one "Basic Config" page and this must be the Primary WAN.

3)

I suspect I have run into a bug when on "Internet Status" Page in Network Map, if I select Secondary WAN, it displays 0.0.0.0 for the IP and blank DNS. The Primary WAN does show the Automatic ISP configured IP and DNS details as well as lease time left.

If I disconnect the Primary WAN, it shows the Secondary WAN IP and other details fine. I should do some more testing of this as I forgot to check details via command line last night. Will do some more configs later today.

 

[RMerlin]

If I disconnect the Primary WAN, it shows the Secondary WAN IP and other details fine. I should do some more testing of this as I forgot to check details via command line last night. Will do some more configs later today.

That might be because you had it set to failover and not load balancing. In failover mode, the secondary WAN isn't used unless the primary fails - which probably means it isn't reported as being configured by the firmware either until that happens.

Dual WAN is one of the big features (IMHO) that might earn Asus a niche userbase, as the alternatives are often more expensive, or more limited. They only recently debuted it officially, so there are still a few rough edges, but it's already a very good start.

 

[RogerSC]

Might this have anything to do with STP? See:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2060349

Based on what I think STP is supposed to accomplish it seems to me it might be related (I'm guessing of course, and would think it has something to do with what your network topology looks like).

Thanks for posting this. I've thought about turning off STP altogether, since I have a simple network topology here and am not worried about loops, etc. Can't really switch from STP to RSTP here, since the router only offers STP. I could turn off STP, though, and might go there at some point to see if there's any effect.

The messages have stopped at the moment, nothing for the last several days when I was getting them about every 4 hours. I suspect that I'll see them again *smile*.

I also ran into this article:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/STP

which suggests that Comcast customers using dd-wrt shouldn't use STP, that it causes a problem with dhcp. This does suggest that turning it off might be something to try as well.

Again, thanks for posting the article, interesting.

 

[joegreat]

In version 3.0.0.4.374.33_0 the USB-application isn't present Download Master.
RT-N16

Hi,

On my RT-N16 it's present. Did you attach an USB drive before you checked the missing Download Master?

With kind regards
Joe

 

[tifozi]

That might be because you had it set to failover and not load balancing. In failover mode, the secondary WAN isn't used unless the primary fails - which probably means it isn't reported as being configured by the firmware either until that happens.

Dual WAN is one of the big features (IMHO) that might earn Asus a niche userbase, as the alternatives are often more expensive, or more limited. They only recently debuted it officially, so there are still a few rough edges, but it's already a very good start.

I should have added that I did set it to load balance. I did not try to set it to failover to see if the display problem was there in failover mode too but I will give it a go later tonight.

Will also see if ifconfig displays the IPs( in both modes) despite the GUI issue. A potential workaround might be to come up with secondary WAN first and then connect the Primary WAN but as of now it seems like a bug to me.

I agree about the DualWAN support being a great niche. Up until now we always relied on the tomato mod or dd-wrt custom scripts to achieve this. The dd-wrt scripts were a gigantic pain for the Asus RT-N16 because of switched ports. It was much easier and reliable to adopt tomato dualwan.cn

 

[saulos]

Hi,
I just installed and all seem to be working fine, I will test the Dual Wan later on the week
I did a reset to clean the old setting and re insert all the setting .


Thanks Marlin !

 

[RMerlin]

I agree about the DualWAN support being a great niche. Up until now we always relied on the tomato mod or dd-wrt custom scripts to achieve this. The dd-wrt scripts were a gigantic pain for the Asus RT-N16 because of switched ports. It was much easier and reliable to adopt tomato dualwan.cn

As a side-note: it's a shame that the developer of that Chinese Tomato mod is totally ignoring the GPL and not publishing his code changes. That's something that's been seriously annoying some of the current Tomato developers.

 

[mikey]

As a side-note: it's a shame that the developer of that Chinese Tomato mod is totally ignoring the GPL and not publishing his code changes. That's something that's been seriously annoying some of the current Tomato developers.

Annoying... and illegal. But I guess some don't have to follow the rules.

Mike

 

[RogerSC]

As a side-note: it's a shame that the developer of that Chinese Tomato mod is totally ignoring the GPL and not publishing his code changes. That's something that's been seriously annoying some of the current Tomato developers.

Just sic Richard Stallman on him, he'll be really sorry that he did that...

 

[silvercloud]

is it possible to add repeater mode in client/hotspot mode.

Sent from my SHV-E160L using Tapatalk now Free

 

[tifozi]

As a side-note: it's a shame that the developer of that Chinese Tomato mod is totally ignoring the GPL and not publishing his code changes. That's something that's been seriously annoying some of the current Tomato developers.

Annoying... and illegal. But I guess some don't have to follow the rules.

Mike

Just sic Richard Stallman on him, he'll be really sorry that he did that...

Unfortunately he is immune to the call outs. tomato devs fought for a good year and gave up almost 2 years ago.

The developer is really skilled no doubt. I believe the 2WAN mod is now a multiwan (4WAN) mod and obviously other enhancements. I am guessing some of the multiwan code is stolen from OpenWRT branches

 

[tifozi]

That might be because you had it set to failover and not load balancing. In failover mode, the secondary WAN isn't used unless the primary fails - which probably means it isn't reported as being configured by the firmware either until that happens.

Dual WAN is one of the big features (IMHO) that might earn Asus a niche userbase, as the alternatives are often more expensive, or more limited. They only recently debuted it officially, so there are still a few rough edges, but it's already a very good start.

I should have added that I did set it to load balance. I did not try to set it to failover to see if the display problem was there in failover mode too but I will give it a go later tonight.

Will also see if ifconfig displays the IPs( in both modes) despite the GUI issue. A potential workaround might be to come up with secondary WAN first and then connect the Primary WAN but as of now it seems like a bug to me.

I agree about the DualWAN support being a great niche. Up until now we always relied on the tomato mod or dd-wrt custom scripts to achieve this. The dd-wrt scripts were a gigantic pain for the Asus RT-N16 because of switched ports. It was much easier and reliable to adopt tomato dualwan.cn

Following up.

So this isn't a bug Here is what was going on

admin@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root#  ifconfig -a | grep HWaddr
br0        Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
eth0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
eth1       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
vlan1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
vlan2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
vlan3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
admin@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root# pwd

In my case my Primary WAN is the WAN port and Secondary WAN is Lan Port 1 (Port farthest from the WAN port physically, which does show Port 1 on the outside as well). This maps to :

PrimaryWAN = vlan2
SecondaryWAN = vlan3

which didn't make sense to me but I like that it works

admin@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root# nvram show|grep -i port|grep -i lan
size: 25415 bytes (7353 left)
vlan2ports=0 8
lan_port=80
vlan3ports=4 8
vlan1ports=1 2 3 8*
https_lanport=8443
MULTIFILTER_LANTOWAN_PORT=
wans_lanport=1
lanports=1 2 3
admin@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root#

Anyways my ISP didn't like the vlan2 and vlan3 HWaddr being the same so it was rejecting the connection, hence the status initially. I just forced vlan2 to a different address and we had liftoff

admin@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root# ifconfig vlan2 down
admin@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root# ifconfig vlan2 hw ether AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:EF
admin@RT-N16:/tmp/home/root# ifconfig vlan2 up

Status shows correctly in both loadbalance AND failover modes. In failover mode in the GUI, the Secondary WAN has a "Standby" under it whereas in Load Balance mode, both say "Connected" under them. In both cases the IPs/DNS/Leases are shown in detail in the GUI as well as through command line. Only the behavior of dualwan changes. By the way, after enabling IPv6 all network interfaces are showing inet6 addresses. I had tunneled only the PrimaryWAN (vlan2).

I am loving this firmware so far! Lots of configs still to be migrated but

Thank you RMerlin

 

[RMerlin]

All props for DualWAN fully goes to Asus. I haven't touched that code, and have no intention to either (since it's quite deeply integrated all over the place).

 

[pijat]

After upgrade to RT-AC66U_3.0.0.4_374.33_0 FW, this router cannot detect my 4G modem anymore. This log after insert this modem :-

Jan 1 08:02:32 kernel: usb 1-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Jan 1 08:02:32 kernel: usb 1-1.1: configuration #34 chosen from 1 choice
Jan 1 08:02:32 kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 1 08:02:34 kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM GCT Semi CD-ROM 312e PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
Jan 1 08:02:34 kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
Jan 1 08:02:34 kernel: usb 1-1.1: USB disconnect, address 7
Jan 1 08:02:35 kernel: usb 1-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
Jan 1 08:02:35 kernel: usb 1-1.1: configuration #17 chosen from 1 choice

Reinstall back previous FW (RT-AC66U_3.0.0.4_374.32_0-dwyd) cause only this FW can detect my modem. Please help.Thank

Mr.RMerlin .Hope you can explain this problem. already post this few days agooo..

 

[speedingcheetah]

Just flashed the new release build of merlin to my AC56U over the 158 build of stock.....

so far....can't tell any real difference....so far so good...not the issues i had back when i first tried merlin, but then again, I am not changing around any settings)


I did set overclock to 1000,667.....seem fine.....stock is 800, 533 right?