[CLOSED] Asuswrt-Merlin 378.50 Beta 1 is out

[fjansen04]

I flashed 378.50 on my RT-AC68U and everything is working fine except for one thing.

I had a WD Passport HD on USB3, which is now not recognized anymore.
It works OK on USB2, though.

 

[octopus]

I flashed 378.50 on my RT-AC68U and everything is working fine except for one thing.

I had a WD Passport HD on USB3, which is now not recognized anymore.
It works OK on USB2, though.

Wireless => professional=>Reducing USB 3.0 interference
Is it "Disable" ? otherwise usbport is in usb2 mode.

 

[Da.Rock]

NAT loopback (attempting to access a LAN server from the LAN, using the WAN address) doesn't seem to work with this firmware. Flashed back to 376.49_5 and it is working again.

Using an AC66u

Having the same issue. Turning of NAT acceleration solved it though.

 

[Gnoty]

So usb connection keeps shutting down as always, to round this one can use doubble wan to keep it reconnecting?

but when i activate doubble wan i cant access the internets.. ac68 tells me that im connected but nothing happens.

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Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: PCI: bus2: Fast back to back transfers disabled
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: pci 0002:00:00.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0x40000000-0x400fffff]
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: pci 0002:02:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x40000000-0x40007fff 64bit]
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: pci 0002:02:00.0: BAR 0: set to [mem 0x40000000-0x40007fff 64bit] (PCI address [0x40000000-0x40007fff]
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: pci 0002:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 02-02]
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: pci 0002:00:00.0: bridge window [io disabled]
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: pci 0002:00:00.0: bridge window [mem 0x40000000-0x400fffff]
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: pci 0002:00:00.0: bridge window [mem pref disabled]
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: PCIE3 link=0
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: fuse init (API version 7.15)
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: msgmni has been set to 499
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: io scheduler noop registered (default)
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: io scheduler deadline registered
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: io scheduler cfq registered
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18000300 (irq = 117) is a 16550
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: console [ttyS0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: serial8250.0: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x18000400 (irq = 117) is a 16550
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: brd: module loaded
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: loop: module loaded
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: pflash: found no supported devices
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: bcmsflash: found no supported devices
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Boot partition size = 524288(0x80000)
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: lookup_nflash_rootfs_offset: offset = 0x200000
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: nflash: squash filesystem with lzma found at block 28
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Creating 4 MTD partitions on "nflash":
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: 0x000000000000-0x000000080000 : "boot"
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: 0x000000080000-0x000000200000 : "nvram"
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: 0x000000200000-0x000004000000 : "linux"
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: 0x00000039a2a4-0x000004000000 : "rootfs"
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: PPP MPPE Compression module registered
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 24
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: PPTP driver version 0.8.5
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: === PPTP init ===
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: u32 classifier
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Actions configured
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (3992 buckets, 15968 max)
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: TCP cubic registered
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: L2TP core driver, V2.0
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V2.0
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Registering the dns_resolver key type
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Northstar brcmnand NAND Flash Controller driver, Version 0.1 (c) Broadcom Inc. 2012
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0x01, Chip ID: 0xf1 (AMD NAND 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Spare area=64 eccbytes 56, ecc bytes located at:
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63

 

[Gnoty]

Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Available 7 bytes at (off,len):
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: (1,1) (16,2) (32,2) (48,2) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0)
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Scanning device for bad blocks
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Options: NO_AUTOINCR,NO_READRDY,BBT_SCAN2NDPAGE,
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Creating 2 MTD partitions on "brcmnand":
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: 0x000004000000-0x000007ec0000 : "brcmnand"
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: 0x000007ec0000-0x000008000000 : "asus"
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:3.
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: devtmpfs: mounted
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Freeing init memory: 212K
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ctf: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: et_module_init: passivemode set to 0x0
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: et_module_init: txworkq set to 0x1
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: et_module_init: et_txq_thresh set to 0x400
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: eth0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 6.37.14.86 (r456083)
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: wl_module_init: passivemode set to 0x0
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: wl_module_init: txworkq set to 0x1
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: eth1: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11 Wireless Controller 6.37.14.86 (r456083)
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: eth2: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11 Wireless Controller 6.37.14.86 (r456083)
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: usbcore: registered new device driver usb
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: csw_retry 100
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Tuxera FAT 12/16/32 driver version 3014.7.30 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Tuxera NTFS driver 3014.7.29 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: Tuxera HFS+ driver 3014.7.28
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: xHCI Host Controller
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: irq 112, io mem 0x18023000
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: Failed to enable MSI-X
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: failed to allocate MSI entry
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: usb usb1: No SuperSpeed endpoint companion for config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 ep 129: using minimum values
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: [xhci-hub] usb2mode:[0]
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:0a.1: EHCI Host Controller
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:0a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:0a.1: irq 111, io mem 0x18021000
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:0a.1: USB 0.0 started, EHCI 1.00
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:0a.0: OHCI Host Controller
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:0a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:0a.0: irq 111, io mem 0x18022000
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Dec 1 01:00:15 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
Dec 1 01:00:16 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
Dec 1 01:00:16 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
Dec 1 01:00:16 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host
Dec 1 01:00:16 kernel: cdc_ncm: 14-Mar-2012
Dec 1 01:00:16 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ncm
Dec 1 01:00:16 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_wdm
Dec 1 01:00:16 kernel: usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Dec 1 01:00:16 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver qmi_wwan
Dec 1 01:00:16 kernel: cdc_mbim: loaded
Dec 1 01:00:16 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_mbim
Dec 1 01:00:16 kernel: scsi0 : usb-storage 2-1:1.0
Dec 1 01:00:17 kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Dec 1 01:00:17 kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
Dec 1 01:00:17 kernel: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2
Dec 1 01:00:17 kernel: device vlan1 entered promiscuous mode
Dec 1 01:00:17 kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Dec 1 01:00:17 kernel: device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
Dec 1 01:00:18 kernel: device eth2 entered promiscuous mode
Dec 1 01:00:18 kernel: br0: topology change detected, propagating
Dec 1 01:00:18 kernel: br0: port 3(eth2) entering forwarding state
Dec 1 01:00:18 kernel: br0: port 3(eth2) entering forwarding state
Dec 1 01:00:18 kernel: br0: topology change detected, propagating
Dec 1 01:00:18 kernel: br0: port 2(eth1) entering forwarding state
Dec 1 01:00:18 kernel: br0: port 2(eth1) entering forwarding state
Dec 1 01:00:18 kernel: br0: topology change detected, propagating
Dec 1 01:00:18 kernel: br0: port 1(vlan1) entering forwarding state
Dec 1 01:00:18 kernel: br0: port 1(vlan1) entering forwarding state
Dec 1 01:00:18 stop_nat_rules: apply the redirect_rules!
Dec 1 01:00:18 dnsmasq[601]: started, version 2.73test1 cachesize 1500
Dec 1 01:00:18 dnsmasq[601]: warning: interface ppp1* does not currently exist
Dec 1 01:00:18 dnsmasq[601]: asynchronous logging enabled, queue limit is 5 messages
Dec 1 01:00:18 dnsmasq-dhcp[601]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.1.2 -- 192.168.1.254, lease time 1d

 

[Gnoty]

How do i do those smart small scoll boxes?

 

[charlie2alpha]

Ok, possible bug found: When using the traditional QoS there are no ip6tables rules generated for the ipv6 mangle table at all! IPv6 is completely ignored. For the ipv4 only ppl this is irrelevant but my ISP provides me with native IPv6 for 2 years now, can't ignore this bug.

 

[charlie2alpha]

How do i do those smart small scoll boxes?

Use the code tag, [ CODE ] your text [ /CODE ] (without the spaces inside the brackets).

 

[scole]

Hi, new here. Just upgraded to the beta and it's been stable for me. I saw this post and thought I should report what I have found with Comcast.

I have the RT-AC87U. It just arrived today. I loaded this firmware and did a factory reset. I enabled IPv6 using:

Native
enable "DHCP-PD"
Autoconfiguration "Stateless"
enable "Connect to DNS Server automatically"
enable "Enable Router Advertisement"
enable "Enable DHCPv6 Server"

IPv6 doesn't seem to work but I had this same trouble with my ASUS RT-N66W router.

I unplugged the modem and plugged it back in. I also unplugged the router and plugged it back in. When I log into the router and check the IPv6 page the IPv6 Lan Settings section is blank. These fields:

LAN IPv6 Address
LAN Prefix Length
LAN IPv6 Prefix

The time or two I was able to get my old router to work it would populate those fields.

This may not be of much use but I thought I would share in case it helps. I assume it's just buggy comcast though.

I woke up this morning to IPv6 working. I didn't change anything, didn't reboot the router or modem, just slept. All good!

Thanks for the firmware Merlin.

 

[enr00ted]

Mac filter list merged ?

Installed on my RT-N66U. Working well so far, one question though, is the mac filter universal now ? I remember there was a separate list for the 2.4GHz and another one for the 5GHz.

 

[hank81]

LAN speed issue with QoS enabled.

Router: RT-AC68U

On Wireless clients TX speed gets badly affected (almost -50%) when adaptative QoS is on.

Example: Wifi client sends a file through ftp to the router's hdd or another computer connected by cable.
-Qos enabled: ~4,5-6 MB/s
-Qos disabled: ~11,5-13,5 MB/s

I don't know if it happens too with official firmware.

 

[greg50]

Installed on my RT-N66U. Working well so far, one question though, is the mac filter universal now ? I remember there was a separate list for the 2.4GHz and another one for the 5GHz.

Here is the answer:

This was deliberately changed by Asus. No idea what was the particular reason, but I saw them write code specifically intended to hide the field, and reproduce the existing MACs into one single list. I can only assume it wasn't working properly.

 

[morinzo]

I actually re-tested it on my AC56U tonight. With my CFE set to the proper US region, I had access to the usual channels, and my Nexus 9 had no problem connecting at about 585 Mbps (the test router was in another room, and lying half-disassembled on its face, so, not the ideal setup).

People with additional channels are probably folks who live in a region (EU) where DFS is available, which unlocks additional channels.

I have additional channels & in usa.

I can connect to the router when it's on auto, auto is ch.157. Just can't change it, if you need anymore info let me know.

 

[fjansen04]

Wireless => professional=>Reducing USB 3.0 interference
Is it "Disable" ? otherwise usbport is in usb2 mode.

That was it, thanks!

 

[jerry6]

So far working well on N-66 as router and on AC-66 as media bridge , have yet to do a factory reset , been 1 day . Transfer rates are up 1 or 2 MBPS over 49.5 .

 

[twau]

Thanks for the update, using it on RT-N66U as AP, everything works great except for when I stress the 5 Ghz band as described in the old 376.49 thread, still the same problem, but I see that 378.50 still using 6.30.163.2002 (r382208). So I guess that I have to flash older firmware again, and wait for asus to get some new wl-drivers

http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showpost.php?p=155489&postcount=51

My RT-N66U don't like to be maxed out on the 5 GHz band anymore, if I transfer files over NFS/SMB/SCP from my NAS to my computer using 5 GHz band the 5 GHz band dies for everyone, all devices timeout. You can still see the SSID but you can't connect to it, when this happens I can still connect to the 2.4 GHz band to access the router. Nothing gets written to syslog/dmesg when this has happened, and to fix it I have to reboot or execute "/sbin/restart_wireless".

Anyone else noticed anything like this when stressing the 5 GHz band heavily? I get the same issue on stock firmware so I dont know if I should blame the 6.30.163.2002 (r382208) driver or my router as the cause.

Tried with two different wireless adapters TP-Link TL-WDN4800 and Asus USB-N53. It only kills the 5 GHz when im stressing the 5GHz band with the TL-WDN4800 (approx 150Mbit/s), feels like the cause is that im not reaching the same high speeds with the Asus USB-N53(approx 110Mbit/s).

Tried to contact Asus Support in my country, too bad they where to no help, just said I should flash the latest firmware, that I already told them that I had on the router.

Anyone got a clue how to fix this, or to troubleshoot it further?

 

[RMerlin]

With the newest Merlin and asus firmware a have problem with upload speed in LAN when I set Adaptive QOS to "Upload Bandwidth 0,8 Mb/s
Download Bandwidth 2,5 Mb/s" My upload speed with this parameters to NAS is about 3-7 MB/s but when I change "Upload Bandwidth to 10 Mb/s" it instantly grow up to 40MB/s. I have RT-AC68U.

Yes, this issue keeps popping out and in over the years. For some reason, LAN throughput is sometimes affected by the QoS configuration. I have no idea why, I'm not really an expert on Linux tc.

 

[RMerlin]

I have noticed a problem with nat acceleration on: when is on, I can't reach my nas web interface and smb from wifi, but works well on ethernet. Surprised me that I can reach the web interface from wifi only using my asus ddns address.
With nat acceleration off I can reach the web interface and smb from wifi and from ethernet.

For some reason, an iptables patch Asus committed a few months ago to fix NAT loopback issues was recently reverted. The fix is currently on Github and will be reapplied for Beta 2.

 

[RMerlin]

Thanks for the feedback (and the rather excellent firmware !!), unfortunately I did try the postconf script for VSFTPD but using listen=NO simply results in VSFTPD not starting as this directive will attempt to run the daemon under inetd on a per connection basis rather than a standalone daemon. I also tried appending listen_ipv6=YES but this results in VSFTPD running but the same "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" when attempting to connect from a client. I do not use IPV6 and have this fully disabled

You should obviously only use that fix if you use IPv6. Otherwise, you will indeed end up with having no listen directive at all.

 

[RMerlin]

One piece of good news, haven't seen any of these weird messages in my system log using 50_Beta yet:

Dec 3 23:42:29 dnsmasq-dhcp[682]: DHCPSOLICIT(br0) 00:01:00:01:1b:eb:4f:58:44:8a:5b:bc:44:09
Dec 3 23:42:29 dnsmasq-dhcp[682]: DHCPADVERTISE(br0) 00:01:00:01:1b:eb:4f:58:44:8a:5b:bc:44:09 no addresses available

and since I was getting about 16 of these a day with 376.49*, it seems that whatever was causing them has been killed. Or they're being filtered. Either way, nice not to have them filling up my log day after day *smile*.

Thanks to whoever fixed this!

Pinwing's patch should be taking care of these.