Cannot open WebUI, Empty Response!?

[tausche]

Hi folks,

I got a weird error I've never seen before, mybe you could help.

First of all, I flashed to the merlin-FW when I got the asus out of the box a few weeks ago
It definitely was a 374 build, not sure which revision, maybe 32.2 (?)
Everything worked fine...


Now, a few weeks later I want to fiddle with the config,
but now if I try to open the webinterface with http:/192.168.1.1 i got from chrome:

ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

webUI also does not open in IE, firefox from windows;
links, seamonkey from linux on different machine nor dolphin,android browser from mobile phone.


With a bit googeling I found the same error on the asus-forums,
there it was a problem when activating SSL for the webinterface. link

I never activated SSL, calling the page with https://192.168.1.1:8443 or std-port 443 doesn't work either.
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
because it is not activated.


After several reboots the problem stays still the same.

I cannot access the router through webUI.
Thoug I can ping it, I can go to the webinterface of 192.168.0.1 which is my modem (accessible through the router), port forwarding works like I configured it, telnet and SSH access are still working.
But no WebUI.

I don't want to reset the router with the hard button on the back at this point, because I am not sure it will work after and I could restore my backup-configs?

Do you have any idea what this problem could be?

thanks a lot to the community, your're great!

best regards!

 

[rlcronin]

Using nod32 perhaps?
--
bc

 

[Daybreak]

Howdy,
Power off your router, power off your computer.

Power on the router, power on your computer.

connect to your router with IE

when you are done, LOGOUT of your router.

 

[tausche]

Hi folks,

thanks fpr reply!

Using nod32 perhaps?
--
bc

you mean Mod 32 (the build) or something else?


I did power off modem, router and PC.
Restarted everything but IE also does not display the webinterface...

any other suggestions?

thanks a lot!

Edit: got it!

because of your hint I tried to set the IP of my computer back to the one I had when flashing and configuring the asus.
It is only by accident that I know the IP by now which I got first time from the asus-DHCP.

So if I set a static 192.168.1.17 on the host the access to 192.168.1.1 works flawlessy. (!!)

BUT:
Even if I log out on the webinterface, setting IP back to dynamical, repower the asus so I get .10
...no login is possible.
Same error as before.
login only works with IP 192.168.1.17

???
what is the problem here?

I got a network with rather complicated relations between the hosts, so changing the IP of this one would lead to an amount of configs to all the other machines.


I think a session timeout of say 20min would be ENOUGH security for home users,
this you-cannot-log-in-anymore-forever-policy sucks, though my ISP has the same on its modem.
but there a power cycle is enough to get it back fully working...

thank you!

edit2: FOUND IT!

under "administration" the "Only allow specific IP"-option has been set, so THERE was the problem.

thank you all and sorry for bothering!

 

[jmir]

Asus RT-N16 (in bridge mode with TG787 Thomson Modem); win Vista
running Merlin FW RT-N16_3.0.0.4_266.23b

Thank you so much! Your post helped me to solve the problem as well!

I had precisely the same trouble: after more than 1 year without any problem, for no apparent reason, I was no longer able to get into rt-n16 setup page. I've tried all basic things, but only setting up manually the ORIGINAL ip address assigned by Asus RT-N16 original firmware solved the problem...
Joao

P.-S.: And, yes, I had as well under "administration" tab the "Only allow specific IP" option set to yes...

 

[tausche]

Thank you so much! Your post helped me to solve the problem as well!

Your're welcome!
Nice to hear that this post helps somebody else.