Asuswrt-Merlin 378.55 Beta is now available

[mromero]

For some reason QOS Bandwidth Monitor does not work on FF, and and the Traffic Analyzer is borked. Ram usage reports as being almost maxed out at 90%. Switching to Chrome the QOS Bandwidth Monitor works. Upgraded on the RT AC 87U, then rebooted. Did not do hard reset and reconfig all over again as I did not see this as a requirement for this Beta.

 

[fbriceno97]

Is it normal on this release to have such high ram usage almost to the top?, i have an RT-AC68U and the ram usage is fixed to 86%

 

[Darcy]

In the last build I saw my phone(Galaxy 5S) link speed drop from 866Mbps to 526Mbps and it happened with this build as well. I have an RT-AC66R. Merlin posted a while ago about not having something checked/unchecked to gain the speed back which I did on the last build and it worked but I forgot what it was to apply to this build. Any help? Spanning Tree Protocol maybe?

 

[AnTiLooP]

Updated both my routers... AC68U as AP, AC66U as Media Bridge... much more stable -

- no more ping time outs from client (my PC) to AP
- faster throughput pick up (based on speedtest.net)
- over all better response from Router GUI (might be placebo effect, not sure).

overall, cant say anything bad about this... good work.

thanks Merlin!

P/s - i think Protected Management Frames was enabled by default on the previous F/W 378_54_2. its now disabled by default for both 2.4 and 5 GHZ bands wireless. perhaps that's what fixed the stability issues I was experiencing.

 

[bluepoint]

Is it normal on this release to have such high ram usage almost to the top?, i have an RT-AC68U and the ram usage is fixed to 86%

Read post #1 of this thread regarding ARM router's memory usage.

 

[RMerlin]

OK thanks for the confirmation. Is the old working time scheduler completely gone or just hidden? Is there a way to get to it if so?

The problem is not the webui - that part works properly. It's the code that takes the settings generated by the webui, and converts them into actual time period that's broken.

I'm not gonna waste 2-3 hours reverting back code that will be fixed by Asus in the near future, and will be a 5 mins fix for me to backport at that time.

 

[RMerlin]

I prefer to use scripting and I haven't had to manually enter my credentials to access an ASUS router for years!
However, I acknowledge that the 'art' of scripting logons is potentially vulnerable, as passing the router credentials as a command line argument (or even extracting them from an obfuscated Registry key) to the script at some point means the password may be disclosed in plain text - unlike commercial secure password vaulting such as LastPass etc.?

Furthermore, scripting allows more than a simple logon..
My example physically logs onto the router and then auto-navigates to display the Wireless log.

I'm sure as a developer you probably have a set of similar scripts to eliminate the tedious manual keystrokes needed to test new GUI features etc.?

http://tinypic.com/r/24eb0vn/8

I don't use mouse macros or other automation methods. I don't always work from the same machine (can be my desktop or my monitor, so different screen size and layout). I also don't want to spend my time implementing and updating it every time something changes on the webui layout. For some tests I manually set the nvram values over SSH rather than enter them through the webui, but that's about it.

Beside, I leave most of the webui work to Asus, as these are always a PITA to implement. I don't have the time to specifically test everything they might change on the webui, so I usually only test my own changes.

For anything that involves passwords, I use either Lastpass or copy/pasted passwords from my local SplashID database.

 

[PabloAbonia]

Will this release be using the final release version of dnsmasq (2.73). I can't tell from the commits. I'm hoping to get rid of a logging bug related to IPV6.

I've tried compiling asuswrt-Merlin myself and it seems like it should be dnsmasq 2.73. However my attempts failed as the instructions for Ubuntu don't work for 14.04 as libcurses-dev gets substituted with libcurses5-dev, and it can't install automake1.11. I can't find either of them anywhere to download.

Pablo

 

[HeadBanger]

The problem is not the webui - that part works properly. It's the code that takes the settings generated by the webui, and converts them into actual time period that's broken.

I'm not gonna waste 2-3 hours reverting back code that will be fixed by Asus in the near future, and will be a 5 mins fix for me to backport at that time.

OK no worries I'll revert back to 54 and wait for Asus to fix.

Incidentally I think that the parental time control (by Mac ID) may be broken too.

HB

 

[Fester1952]

autofill works fine using lastpass

I having no issues on my iMac with Safari either

 

[rlcronin]

I'm on Windows 10, and the login fields only seem to populate when using IE - with Chrome, LastPass just does an asterisk with a "1", indicating there is one matching entry, but it doesn't populate, also Chrome's native password-filler and Spartan/Edge don't save/fill the user & password either.

That happened the first time for me, but I just clicked the *1 and it filled it in and then every time I return, its pre-filled in.
--
bc

 

[mreckhof]

For some reason QOS Bandwidth Monitor does not work on FF, and and the Traffic Analyzer is borked.

Read back a few posts for these two.

 

[mreckhof]

Asus has done a number of fixes to that page in upstream code, I'm waiting for a new GPL to merge their changes back. That's why I didn't spend any time tracking down the issue on the current version.

Cool. Don't blame you.

Is the pending upstream code different than what's in 3.0.0.4.378_6117? I just updated to that on RT-AC56 to see if it resolves the issue, and looks like the bug is still in there (i hit it immediately).

[0] 90:B9:31:8A:C8:73
AdaptiveQoS_Bandwidth_Monitor.asp:595 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'innerHTML' of null​

 

[mreckhof]

I'm not gonna waste 2-3 hours reverting back code that will be fixed by Asus in the near future, and will be a 5 mins fix for me to backport at that time.

Out of curiosity, how do you tend to go about writing/testing the web ui code? Seems like it'd be a royal pain if there isn't a way to make it read/write on a running router since I'd think you'd pretty much have to write the code in the dark, generate an image, flash, and test...

 

[Darcy]

In the last build I saw my phone(Galaxy 5S) link speed drop from 866Mbps to 526Mbps and it happened with this build as well. I have an RT-AC66R. Merlin posted a while ago about not having something checked/unchecked to gain the speed back which I did on the last build and it worked but I forgot what it was to apply to this build. Any help? Spanning Tree Protocol maybe?

I put Nat acceleration to auto and it fixed it.

 

[mromero]

After 24 hours I am finding occasional disconnects on 2.4 Mhz band exactly the same behavior I was experiencing with the unofficial Asus 6117 / 6687 BETAs on laptop with Intel Centrino Wireless N1000 adapter. It appears Asus fixes one thing and breaks another. The previous Merlin worked just fine.

 

[RMerlin]

Will this release be using the final release version of dnsmasq (2.73). I can't tell from the commits. I'm hoping to get rid of a logging bug related to IPV6.

I've tried compiling asuswrt-Merlin myself and it seems like it should be dnsmasq 2.73. However my attempts failed as the instructions for Ubuntu don't work for 14.04 as libcurses-dev gets substituted with libcurses5-dev, and it can't install automake1.11. I can't find either of them anywhere to download.

Pablo

I'm following Asus for dnsmasq since they keep it fairly up-to-date. 6117 is based on 2.73 RC 8.

 

[RMerlin]

OK no worries I'll revert back to 54 and wait for Asus to fix.

Incidentally I think that the parental time control (by Mac ID) may be broken too.

HB

Most likely, it's the same watchdog code for both.

 

[RMerlin]

Cool. Don't blame you.

Is the pending upstream code different than what's in 3.0.0.4.378_6117? I just updated to that on RT-AC56 to see if it resolves the issue, and looks like the bug is still in there (i hit it immediately).

[0] 90:B9:31:8A:C8:73
AdaptiveQoS_Bandwidth_Monitor.asp:595 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'innerHTML' of null​

378.55 is based on 6117, so it will have the same bugs as the official 6117 releases (minus those things I fixed, like the Network Tools page). GPL 6975 should be available early this week. I don't intend to merge it for 378.55, but I will possibly backport a few specific fixes if they are in that release.

 

[RMerlin]

Out of curiosity, how do you tend to go about writing/testing the web ui code? Seems like it'd be a royal pain if there isn't a way to make it read/write on a running router since I'd think you'd pretty much have to write the code in the dark, generate an image, flash, and test...

I use binding mounts to mount writable files on top of the flashed ones.

cp /www/index.asp /tmp
mount -o bind /tmp/index.asp /www/index.asp

Then, any change done to /tmp/index.asp will be used by the web server.

If I were to do more extensive work, I could also copy the whole /www directory to a USB disk, and either mount -o bind the whole directory, or manually run httpd from within that directory.