Asuswrt-Merlin 376.48 is out

[RMerlin]

updated from 376.47. All looks good it seem i even got few extra mbit out of the AC66U with QOS on.

I did notices this in system log

Nov 14 15:51:09 crond[359]: time disparity of 2035970 minutes detected

I am assuming this has to do with cron jobs? I checked with Putty and the Cron job ( reboot ever thursday @ 6am) is still there tho.

Correct. It means the clock was recently set by NTP following the reboot, and now the Cron service is also adjusting itself to the update time.

 

[RMerlin]

Page is totally loaded..
Thus, this is what I see

I don't remember this page having anything special httpd-wise, unlike the Sysinfo page. I wonder if maybe the problem might not be actually caused by the Sysinfo page (that you have to load first to access that page). To test this out, bookmark the OtherSettings page. Then, after restarting the httpd, try directly going to this page, without going through the Sysinfo page. If httpd keeps running, then it means the problem is actually with the Sysinfo page (which is far more likely, as that page polls various bits of info from the httpd daemon concerning temperature, CPU load, etc...)

If you can confirm that the Sysinfo page is causing it, post a screenshot of that page so I can see if there's any setting out of the ordinary on that page that might trigger this.

 

[tsunami2311]

Correct. It means the clock was recently set by NTP following the reboot, and now the Cron service is also adjusting itself to the update time.

great news, so far so good this fw is an improvement DL speeds wise over .47 wired with QOS

105 mbit average .47 vs 107 mbit average .48
90% cpu average .47 vs 100% mbit average .48

So figure the CPU is working harder to give me few extra mbit with QOS on

turn QOS drops usage to 25% and give 120+ mbit wired

Also the Client status tab bug is still there , It say 5 wired clients when there is only 2

 

[oversim]

I don't remember this page having anything special httpd-wise, unlike the Sysinfo page. I wonder if maybe the problem might not be actually caused by the Sysinfo page (that you have to load first to access that page). To test this out, bookmark the OtherSettings page. Then, after restarting the httpd, try directly going to this page, without going through the Sysinfo page. If httpd keeps running, then it means the problem is actually with the Sysinfo page (which is far more likely, as that page polls various bits of info from the httpd daemon concerning temperature, CPU load, etc...)

Well I already tested it before posting the first post, and I can confirm the problem is in the othersettings page. In other worlds, even bookmarked it, the result is the same, the httpd stop working after the othersettings page is loaded...

 

[Tonakai]

RT-N16 was brick after flashing 48_2

Thanks again Merlin for this quick-fix.
Something weird happened upgrading from 48_1 to 48_2, my RT-N16 goes in a brick status with power led slow-flashing.
I saved my butt flashing with Asus firmware restoration tool latest original firmware, and then flashed 48_2.
All works fine now, samba is operative as in .47.

About upper post this is my report:

@vdemarco: Wireless/General page displayed correctly here
@jmedaglia: available space on my USB disk is correctly displayed

@moronim: testing more deeply I can confirm that port forward is correct ONLY for services running inside the router.
As an example, access from LAN or external ip to pyload and transmission running on Asus works both using local ip and no-ip.com
Access to my STB/OpenWebIf, running on another device, from LAN works fine only using local ip, no access using no-ip.com.
No problems accessing to the same device from external ip.

Hi RMerlin,

Same symptom happened on my RT-N16 when I flashing it from .47 to .48_2. And I can't save it by flashing it to original Asus FW through the restoration tool, I saved it by flashing it with tomato FW through the restoration tool. And now I can flash it back to .47 and Asus original FW, but it will be brick again if I flash it to .48_2.

 

[bmn1]

There is something wrong with port forwarding. I have forwarded ports to my synology NAS server for synchronisation. I have configured my devices to connect using my external IP address. When I am connecting outside my network, it works fine - ports are forwarded. But using the same configuration (external IP) does not work when I am at local network. It worked fine on 376.47

 

[saffron]

When uploading .ovpn config file to openvpn client, remote-random does not work.

example.ovpn

...
remote-random
remote a.a.a.a 443
remote b.b.b.b 443
remote c.c.c.c 443
...

At the moment all addresses are dropped except for c.c.c.c 443 and there's nothing added to Custom Configuration input box

Correct behavior -as seen on other software- has the example config above copied into Custom Configuration box. Remote-random does actually work on Merlin fw when manually copying in config.

Appreciate your work, RMerlin, thanks.

 

[charmainelooi]

Hi,

I can't do an RDP to my local machine externally despite having done a port forwarding. It was working fine on 376_47 version.

Thanks !

PS: I flashed back to 47 and I could RDP / sFTP in externally.

 

[ChikkSpot]

Hi,

I can't do an RDP to my local machine externally despite having done a port forwarding. It was working fine on 376_47 version.

Thanks !

PS: I flashed back to 47 and I could RDP / sFTP in externally.

were you trying to RDP from one local PC to another local PC in the same LAN via the external IP hostname or address?

 

[RMerlin]

If I see one more post about the NAT loopback I think I'm going to be sick...

 

[thinklad]

were you trying to RDP from one local PC to another local PC in the same LAN via the external IP hostname or address?

I noticed a similar issue: I am no longer able to use the external IP address to access my DMZ host from within the LAN. It used to work in previous versions.

 

[ChikkSpot]

If I see one more post about the NAT loopback I think I'm going to be sick...

I was going to suggest...you might wanna modify the top post with something like:

NAT loopback NOT WORKING!!!

DISABLE hw acceleration if you really need it!!!

 

[lancer73]

I was going to suggest...you might wanna modify the top post with something like:

NAT loopback NOT WORKING!!!

DISABLE hw acceleration if you really need it!!!

Agree, but a lot of people don't even know what NAT loopback is, so maybe like this (assuming people read the start post):

With .48 it might not be possible to access you forwarded ports using the external IP. If you really need it disable HW acceleration.

But there is another solution as well;
1) on the LAN - DHCP tab, you can set the domain of the router; use the (D)DNS domain you are using.
2a) Then manually assign a local IP number with the proper hostname to the computer that is forwarding the service, or, if your router is exposing these services
2b) set the device name in the LAN - LAP IP tab

Now when you are not at home, your hostname will resolve to you external IP address and when you are at home, it will resolve to a local address. No loopback needed!

 

[Deleted member 28123]

Is anyone else experiencing a 'segmentation fault' with busybox's wget when carrying out an ipkg update?

admin@gateway:/# ipkg update
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/mbwe-bluering/cross/stable/Packages.gz
Segmentation fault
Downloading http://nw-dlcdnet.asus.com/asusware/arm/stable/Packages.gz
Segmentation fault
An error ocurred, return value: 2.
Collected errors:
ipkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 139: `wget    -q -P /opt/ipkg-XhrW7g http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/mbwe-bluering/cross/stable/Packages.gz'
ipkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 139: `wget    -q -P /opt/ipkg-XhrW7g http://nw-dlcdnet.asus.com/asusware/arm/stable/Packages.gz'
admin@gateway:/# which wget
/usr/bin/wget

I tried re-flashing the firmware a couple of times and was only able to get it to work by downloading optware's wget ver 1.21 and modifying the env PATH so it would start with /opt/bin:/opt/sbin etc.

 

[stefauresi]

I was going to suggest...you might wanna modify the top post with something like:

NAT loopback NOT WORKING!!!

DISABLE hw acceleration if you really need it!!!

Bonjour,

c'est quand même triste de voir un routeur a ce prix ne pas gérer nativement le Nat loopback avec l'accélération matériel activé !!!!

En france les fournisseurs d'accès, Orange dans mon cas fourni une livebox qui ne gére pas le loopback , j'ai donc acheté un DSL-AC68U pour la remplacer mais non le nat loopback n'est pas géré non plus sur le DSL-AC68U !!!

j'achete alors un RT-AC68U couplé a un modem ADSL2+ , l'horreur quand je vois que même avec un firmware Merlin le RT-AC68U ne gére pas non plus le loopback !!!

j'ai un serveur avec plusieur site hébergé ...

Pour le moment j'ai installé TOMATO sur le RT-AC68u et j'ai le loopback !!!

j'espère bientôt revenir sur un firmware MERLIN dès que le loopback sera géré

Ps: je tiens a remercié Merlin pour le travail qu'il fournis sur les routeurs ASUS

Google translate

Hi,

it's sad to see a router at this price not manage natively Nat loopback with enabled hardware acceleration !!!!

In France, Orange provide an Livebox which does not manage the Nat Loopback, I have buying a DSL AC68U for replace the livebox and the loopback isn't manage !!!

I then bought a RT-AC68U coupled to ADSL2+ modem
horror when I see that even with a Merlin firmware RT-AC68U not manages the loopback !!!

My web serveur hosted several web site

For the moment, my RT-AC68u is on TOMATO and the nat loopback is functional!!!

 

[Shonk]

Any chance of getting the latest prebuilt binary's and drivers merged for the ac66-u

ASUS RT-AC66U GPL for Firmware version 3.0.0.4.376.3602
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-AC66U/GPL_RT_AC66U_30043763602.zip

They work fine with merlin

 

[ChikkSpot]

I then bought a RT-AC68U coupled to ADSL2+ modem horror when I see that even with a Merlin firmware RT-AC68U not manages the loopback !!!

utiliser la version de firmware .47

 

[bbunge]

After running .48 for a week and getting lousy range and intermittent download issues I went back to .47 on my RT-N66R. Now all is well at least with the router. Firefox and Microsoft updates are still causing problems!

 

[RMerlin]

it's sad to see a router at this price not manage natively Nat loopback with enabled hardware acceleration !!!!

It's not a router limitation, it's simply a bug that was present in a very specific firmware version, and has already been fixed by Asus in later revisions. Disabling NAT acceleration is simply a workaround, the issue is that NAT loopback trafic isnt properly marked to tell it that it should be bypassing CTF, due to a recent architectural change by Asus.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the router's price. I see multi-thousand dollar equipment from Cisco ship with bugs just as well.

For the moment, my RT-AC68u is on TOMATO and the nat loopback is functional!!!

And since Tomato lacks NAT acceleration support, I fail to see how this is an improvement over simply temporarily disabling it in Asuswrt-Merlin...

 

[stefauresi]

With Asuswrt-Merlin,

I tested by disabling hardware acceleration, and unfortunately it does not work.

Or so I understood nothing !!!

TOMATO (web server address: 192.168.1.20)