Beta Asuswrt-Merlin 388.1 Beta is available for select models

[Milan]

Finally, found reason why is sysstate consuming so much CPU:

After checking and fixing file systems on all my USB drives and voilà - seems it helped.

 

[Samuel_1975]

yes just wondering when my sister's router is different on the classification picture but still yes have done the same update or can the model years do their thing with the software as it was from the beginning

 

[skeal]

I have both Wireguard and Cake running on my AX88U. Have we found out why the GUI reports both of these enabled?

Shouldn't Flow Cache be disabled?

 

[Farley]

All seems to be going OK, except that a couple of times the 2.4GHz WiFi has totally refused to accept connections after a start or reboot of the router. The problem went away after another reboot.

I've narrowed down the problem to use of the radio toggle switch on the GT-AX6000 (WPS button reconfigured).

Each time I turn WiFi off and then on, the 2.4GHz band becomes unavailable for all connections until I reboot.

Since it's a new router I'm unsure of the best plan, given that I do use that button quite often. Does anyone have a feel for whether rolling back to the 386 firmware might fix it?

 

[bluepoint]

Does IPv6 work fine? I'm having some issues with it. I used to use only IPv4. I was thinking to play with IPv6 and enabled it. Apps on my GoogleTV would take quite a long time to start. Some websites would have issues loading. finance.yahoo.com is one of them.
Does anybody have IPv6 working fine?

Thanks

What DNS servers are you using for your ipv6? Try cloudflares' or google DnS if not already.

 

[Mutzli]

I have both Wireguard and Cake running on my AX88U. Have we found out why the GUI reports both of these enabled?
View attachment 45449
Shouldn't Flow Cache be disabled?

It should be disabled. What does

fc status

show?

Here is what it should look like when using wireguard or cake:

fc status
        Flow Timer Interval = 10000 millisecs
        Pkt-HW Activate Deferral rate = 1
        Pkt-HW Idle Deactivate = 0
        Pkt-SW Activate Deferral count = 0
        Acceleration Mode: <L2 & L3>
        MCast Learning <Disabled>
        MCast Acceleration IPv4<Enabled> IPv6<Enabled>
        IPv6 Learning <Enabled>
        GRE Learning <Enabled> Mode<Tunnel>
        4o6 Fragmentation <Enabled>
        TCP Ack Prioritization <Enabled>
        HW Acceleration <Disabled>
        Flow Learning Disabled : Max<16384>, Active<3>, Cummulative [ 8 - 5 ]

HW Acceleration should be <Disabled>

 

[Mutzli]

I have the same issue with two AX86U nodes with Beta2 (or Beta1). Putting them back to Stock firmware then all ok. Nodes of AX56U & AXE11000 with Beta2 (or Beta1) no issues. The uplink device is a AX6000.

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Upgraded all my devices to beta 2 today. Did not see a direct repeat of the issue I previously had. My two AX88U nodes continue to be fine and my AX68U node stayed connected to the AIMesh. It is showing an error in the UI (attached) but devices have connected to it and are working fine as near as I can tell. There doesn't seem to be an actual issue with the node now, it just has that error. It also shows connection quality as great, and the devices attached to it have good network response and speed.

View attachment 45417

I had the same issue under alpha1 on my AX58U node. Then switch back to ASUS firmware on the node and the exclamation mark was gone. Now I just tried out beta2 on the node and it works fine with no exclamation mark. So, I don't know what solved it. Maybe just switching from Merlin back to ASUS and Merlin again?

 

[HeadBanger]

I've narrowed down the problem to use of the radio toggle switch on the GT-AX6000 (WPS button reconfigured).

Each time I turn WiFi off and then on, the 2.4GHz band becomes unavailable for all connections until I reboot.

Since it's a new router I'm unsure of the best plan, given that I do use that button quite often. Does anyone have a feel for whether rolling back to the 386 firmware might fix it?

I had 2.4 WiFi issues with the first alpha GT-AXE16000. I couldn’t get anything other than my iPhone to connect on 2.4 so rolled back.

Everything is fine but I’ve not since been able to flash any 388.1 versions - it fails constantly.

HB

 

[skeal]

It should be disabled. What does

fc status

show?

Here is what it should look like when using wireguard or cake:

fc status
        Flow Timer Interval = 10000 millisecs
        Pkt-HW Activate Deferral rate = 1
        Pkt-HW Idle Deactivate = 0
        Pkt-SW Activate Deferral count = 0
        Acceleration Mode: <L2 & L3>
        MCast Learning <Disabled>
        MCast Acceleration IPv4<Enabled> IPv6<Enabled>
        IPv6 Learning <Enabled>
        GRE Learning <Enabled> Mode<Tunnel>
        4o6 Fragmentation <Enabled>
        TCP Ack Prioritization <Enabled>
        HW Acceleration <Disabled>
        Flow Learning Disabled : Max<16384>, Active<3>, Cummulative [ 8 - 5 ]

HW Acceleration should be <Disabled>

Here is mine:

RT-AX88U-E770:/tmp/home/root# fc status
Flow Timer Interval = 10000 millisecs
Pkt-HW Activate Deferral rate = 1
Pkt-HW Idle Deactivate = 0
Pkt-SW Activate Deferral count = 0
Acceleration Mode: <L2 & L3>
MCast Learning <Disabled>
MCast Acceleration IPv4<Enabled> IPv6<Enabled>
IPv6 Learning <Enabled>
GRE Learning <Enabled> Mode<Tunnel>
4o6 Fragmentation <Enabled>
TCP Ack Prioritization <Enabled>
HW Acceleration <Enabled>
Flow Learning Enabled : Max<16384>, Active<66>, Cummulative [ 4839 - 4773 ]

It looks enabled here.

 

[Mutzli]

Here is mine:

RT-AX88U-E770:/tmp/home/root# fc status
Flow Timer Interval = 10000 millisecs
Pkt-HW Activate Deferral rate = 1
Pkt-HW Idle Deactivate = 0
Pkt-SW Activate Deferral count = 0
Acceleration Mode: <L2 & L3>
MCast Learning <Disabled>
MCast Acceleration IPv4<Enabled> IPv6<Enabled>
IPv6 Learning <Enabled>
GRE Learning <Enabled> Mode<Tunnel>
4o6 Fragmentation <Enabled>
TCP Ack Prioritization <Enabled>
HW Acceleration <Enabled>
Flow Learning Enabled : Max<16384>, Active<66>, Cummulative [ 4839 - 4773 ]

It looks enabled here.

To have it work correctly you should definitely disable HW and FC acceleration:

fc config --hw-accel 0

fc disable

 

[skeal]

I used this command to disable it.

fc config --hw-accel 0

Will it enable each time I reboot?

 

[Mutzli]

Yes, it will set it back to whatever is in the router configuration. Try to disable cake and reenable it to see if the router config is changed to disable flow cache and HW acceleration.

 

[skeal]

Why yes it does. If I create a script to disable HW Accel where do I put it or call it from? Or is this advisable at all? Can I put that one line in post-mount?

 

[skeal]

Yes, it will set it back to whatever is in the router configuration. Try to disable cake and reenable it to see if the router config is changed to disable flow cache and HW acceleration.

I tried that and it didn't do anything.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Merlin or anyone else can you explain why all of a sudden I am getting these in my logs?
I am using DNS over TLS using 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1.
The below comes in over andover again. Any help would be appreciated

Nov 12 21:51:46 dnsmasq[2042]: possible DNS-rebind attack detected: sensors.yodo1api.com
Nov 12 21:52:02 dnsmasq[2042]: possible DNS-rebind attack detected: logs.ironsrc.mobi
Nov 12 21:53:05 dnsmasq[2042]: possible DNS-rebind attack detected: sensors.yodo1api.com

CC

You could try adding rebind-localhost-ok to /jffs/configs/dnsmasq.conf.add. Then issue a service restart_dnsmasq to the terminal.

 

[Mutzli]

@skeal Do you have the following lines in your routers general log when starting the router?

May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mInitialized fcache state^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache  Char Driver v4.0 Registered<3002>^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: fc_timer_task created successfully
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: Created Proc FS /procfs/fcache
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache registered with netdev chain^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache learning via BLOG enabled.^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;35m[FHW]  pktDbgLvl[0xffffffbffc3f8e08]=0^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;34m[FHW]  fhw_construct: ^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mInitialized Fcache HW accelerator layer state^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: flwStatsThread created. numFlwsPerPoll 546 maxFlwIdx 16383
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mFcache Pathstats created^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mConstructed Broadcom Packet Flow Cache v4.0^[[0m

 

[archiel]

Here is mine:

RT-AX88U-E770:/tmp/home/root# fc status
Flow Timer Interval = 10000 millisecs
Pkt-HW Activate Deferral rate = 1
Pkt-HW Idle Deactivate = 0
Pkt-SW Activate Deferral count = 0
Acceleration Mode: <L2 & L3>
MCast Learning <Disabled>
MCast Acceleration IPv4<Enabled> IPv6<Enabled>
IPv6 Learning <Enabled>
GRE Learning <Enabled> Mode<Tunnel>
4o6 Fragmentation <Enabled>
TCP Ack Prioritization <Enabled>
HW Acceleration <Enabled>
Flow Learning Enabled : Max<16384>, Active<66>, Cummulative [ 4839 - 4773 ]

It looks enabled here.

Also running beta2 on RT-AX88U, but different result. I am using @Martineau's Wireguard Manager and although I also use Cake, which should itself disable Flow Control, I had disabled Flow Control directly in WireguardVPN.conf.

As a test I have re-enabled Flow Control in Wireguard Manager and restarted (wgm stop, then wgm start) and as expected

Spoiler: fc status

admin@RT-AX88U-5050:/tmp/home/root# fc status
        Flow Timer Interval = 10000 millisecs
        Pkt-HW Activate Deferral rate = 1
        Pkt-HW Idle Deactivate = 0
        Pkt-SW Activate Deferral count = 0
        Acceleration Mode: <L2 & L3>
        MCast Learning <Disabled>
        MCast Acceleration IPv4<Enabled> IPv6<Enabled>
        IPv6 Learning <Enabled>
        GRE Learning <Enabled> Mode<Tunnel>
        4o6 Fragmentation <Enabled>
        TCP Ack Prioritization <Enabled>
        HW Acceleration <Disabled>
        Flow Learning Enabled : Max<16384>, Active<430>, Cummulative [ 12667 - 12237 ]

Flow Cache in now enabled but HW Acceleration is still disabled.
Disabling Cake then sets both HW acceleration (Runner) and Flow Cache to on.

 

[Mutzli]

Why yes it does. If I create a script to disable HW Accel where do I put it or call it from? Or is this advisable at all? Can I put that one line in post-mount?

I would try to find what is enabling flow cache before writing a script. When you enable cake-qos it will set the router config to disable flow cache and hw accel. Something else must be interfering with it.

 

[skeal]

@skeal Do you have the following lines in your routers general log when starting the router?

May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mInitialized fcache state^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache  Char Driver v4.0 Registered<3002>^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: fc_timer_task created successfully
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: Created Proc FS /procfs/fcache
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache registered with netdev chain^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache learning via BLOG enabled.^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;35m[FHW]  pktDbgLvl[0xffffffbffc3f8e08]=0^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;34m[FHW]  fhw_construct: ^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mInitialized Fcache HW accelerator layer state^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: flwStatsThread created. numFlwsPerPoll 546 maxFlwIdx 16383
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mFcache Pathstats created^[[0m
May  5 01:05:03 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mConstructed Broadcom Packet Flow Cache v4.0^[[0m

I found this is it the same thing you posted?

May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mInitialized fcache state^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache Char Driver v4.0 Registered<3002>^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: fc_timer_task created successfully
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: Created Proc FS /procfs/fcache
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache registered with netdev chain^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache learning via BLOG enabled.^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;35m[FHW] pktDbgLvl[0xffffffbffc3f8e08]=0^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;34m[FHW] fhw_construct: ^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mInitialized Fcache HW accelerator layer state^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: flwStatsThread created. numFlwsPerPoll 546 maxFlwIdx 16383
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mFcache Pathstats created^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mConstructed Broadcom Packet Flow Cache v4.0^[[0m

 

[Mutzli]

I found this is it the same thing you posted?

May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mInitialized fcache state^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache Char Driver v4.0 Registered<3002>^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: fc_timer_task created successfully
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: Created Proc FS /procfs/fcache
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache registered with netdev chain^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache learning via BLOG enabled.^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;35m[FHW] pktDbgLvl[0xffffffbffc3f8e08]=0^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;34m[FHW] fhw_construct: ^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mInitialized Fcache HW accelerator layer state^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: flwStatsThread created. numFlwsPerPoll 546 maxFlwIdx 16383
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mFcache Pathstats created^[[0m
May 4 23:05:02 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mConstructed Broadcom Packet Flow Cache v4.0^[[0m

When you search the log, is there any call that reenables HW Acceleration after above entry?