[Fork] Asuswrt-Merlin 374.43 LTS releases (Archive)

[RogerSC]

Update: Just reset to factory defaults, reconfigured, and still get 0 clients and continuous client status subwindow refresh. I believe though, that it was working until I enabled IPv6 and rebooted. Using v11, by the way, the latest as far as I know. I do see this in the IPv6 log:

IPv6 LAN Devices List
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Hostname MAC Address IPv6 Address
android-a4bf9d5ae5498dec fc:c2:de:19:48:4e 2601:647:cb00:69f3:f958:3a40:9bac:d30d, 2601:647:cb00:69f3:fec2:deff:fe19:484e
android-a4bf9d5ae5498dec fc:c2:de:19:48:4e 2601:647:cb00:69f3:fec2:deff:fe19:484e

which oddly enough shows 2 IPv6 addresses for one phone. That must be confusing things, looks like.

Just had the owner of that Android phone reboot their phone, and now there's 3 entries in the IPv6 log for it, rebooting added one *sigh*. And their forgetting the wireless network and reconnecting didn't help, but at least it didn't add another IPv6 address. I'll play around some more, but I'm pretty sure that this could be the problem *smile*.

The person that owns the phone is leaving later today, so that should take care of the problem, but very odd. I guess IPv6 addresses are sticky and oddly behaved.

Update: Now that the person that owns the Android phone that had 2 IPv6 addresses somehow has left, everything is back to normal. Still don't know what happened there...

 

[fjf]

Wonderful firmware, with potent wifi and very stable. Just one quick question: does it have the option of using the wan port as lan (in AP mode)?. I cannot find it!.

 

[john9527]

Wonderful firmware, with potent wifi and very stable. Just one quick question: does it have the option of using the wan port as lan (in AP mode)?. I cannot find it!.

AFAIK, it does that automatically if you run as an Access Point. Did you try it and run in to problems?

 

[Chrysalis]

John does my version have all these changes?

if not I will upgrade.

 

[fjf]

AFAIK, it does that automatically if you run as an Access Point. Did you try it and run in to problems?

Wow!. You are right, of course, it works!. Thanks!.

 

[john9527]

John does my version have all these changes?

if not I will upgrade.

If you are referring to the beta level I posted, no you don't have those. Your level is just the base 11E1 + OpenSSL 1.0.2a only.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[john9527]

Just had the owner of that Android phone reboot their phone, and now there's 3 entries in the IPv6 log for it, rebooting added one *sigh*. And their forgetting the wireless network and reconnecting didn't help, but at least it didn't add another IPv6 address. I'll play around some more, but I'm pretty sure that this could be the problem *smile*.

The person that owns the phone is leaving later today, so that should take care of the problem, but very odd. I guess IPv6 addresses are sticky and oddly behaved.

Update: Now that the person that owns the Android phone that had 2 IPv6 addresses somehow has left, everything is back to normal. Still don't know what happened there...

Learn something new every day....apparently that behavior is part of a 'privacy enhancement' RFC for IPv6.
I hadn't noticed before, but my Windows machines were generating 'Temporary IPv6 addresses' that are reflected at the router. I'd guess that the android has implemented the same behavior. Here's a sample ipconfig....

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
 
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : local.lan
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:7ae7:d1ff:fec8:d955(Preferred)
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2001:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:74f6:bf53:e757:fccc(Preferred)
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2001:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:8894:ab10:54ba:927d(Preferred)
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::7ae7:d1ff:fec8:d955%17(Preferred)
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Here's a reference I found on the RFC and how to turn it off for Windows (I've verified that it works).
https://blackundertone.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/disable-windows-7-ipv6-random-temporary-addresses/

Also, it didn't affect my ability to fill the networkmap data, so there is still something else going on in your case.

 

[tasar]

Hi, want to test the 12Beta but cant download it, because Onedrive says every time, it cant test it for virus and downlaod doenst start.

 

[RogerSC]

Learn something new every day....apparently that behavior is part of a 'privacy enhancement' RFC for IPv6.
I hadn't noticed before, but my Windows machines were generating 'Temporary IPv6 addresses' that are reflected at the router. I'd guess that the android has implemented the same behavior. Here's a sample ipconfig....

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : local.lan
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:7ae7:d1ff:fec8:d955(Preferred)
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2001:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:74f6:bf53:e757:fccc(Preferred)
   Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2001:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:8894:ab10:54ba:927d(Preferred)
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::7ae7:d1ff:fec8:d955%17(Preferred)
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Here's a reference I found on the RFC and how to turn it off for Windows (I've verified that it works).
https://blackundertone.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/disable-windows-7-ipv6-random-temporary-addresses/

Also, it didn't affect my ability to fill the networkmap data, so there is still something else going on in your case.

Okay, I'll try again to respond to this *smile*...there isn't anything else going on here, as far as I can tell. As soon as I could, after the person who owned the Android phone left my house, I rebooted the router (again), and their multiple IPv6 addresses were gone out of the IPv6 log. At that point, the client list started working. So, while this isn't cause and effect, it is a strong correlation *smile*. Can't research it more until it happens again, but I'm convinced for the moment that this IPv6 behavior was at least related to the client list problem here.

The other thing is that there's always been more that one IPv6 address when I look at my PC's "ipconfig /all" with IPv6 enabled on a router. I don't remember if there's been more than one address labeled "temporary", but despite the multiple IPv6 addresses in the PC ipconfig command output, only one IPv6 address has shown up in the IPv6 log for that (or any) PC here. So that tells me that that what I seemed to be seeing was an Android bug, or new Android behavior that the router firmware was not sympatico with. Especially since I saw the client list break at the point that I enabled IPv6 after resetting the router to defaults, and manually reconfiguring it. I have an older Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S3 with KitKat) that I haven't seen this with. I don't know what version of Android that the person whose phone showed this problem in the IPv6 log was, but since they have a Samsung Galaxy S5, I expect that it would be Lollipop (at least).

Anyways, I obviously can't say anything definitive, just hoping that it doesn't happen again. Didn't seem to affect anything except the client list, but it was hard to tell since I didn't see the problem for very long. And the WRT1900AC firmware that I was testing for a few days before that didn't have any problems with that Android phone that I saw, as well (new, unreleased dd-wrt firmware).

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Roger i happen to see this on the comcast forums not sure if it's related to your problem i didnt read the whole thread but it might be.

http://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Home-N...-IPv6-addresses-on-Android-phone/td-p/2521882

 

[john9527]

Looking at my IPv6 log it seems my ipad,iphone and android devices have more then one v6 address also. It dont seem to affect anything as far as i know. Notice my windows laptop only has one.

My Windows laptop also doesn't show the multiple addresses.....but my desktops do (always on). I think the laptop suspending and then reconnecting resets things.

BTW....when I was searching, I found a post from someone that had over 100 ipv6 addresses in his Windows ipconfig output!

 

[Deleted member 22229]

My Windows laptop also doesn't show the multiple addresses.....but my desktops do (always on). I think the laptop suspending and then reconnecting resets things.

BTW....when I was searching, I found a post from someone that had over 100 ipv6 addresses in his Windows ipconfig output!

So basically this is a non issue. I also have no problem with the client list it seems to work fine i wonder whats causing Rogers issue ? Could it possibly be a AC68P issue ?

 

[john9527]

So basically this is a non issue. I also have no problem with the client list it seems to work fine i wonder whats causing Rogers issue ? Could it possibly be a AC68P issue ?

Don't think it's AC68P related, but don't have any real good ideas. But if it happens again, what I would like him to do is dump the ARP table. I think after looking at the code is that the way network map works is by going through the ipv4 address space (hardcoded to a max /24 netmask) and sending an ARP request to each address looking for valid data.

So callout to @RogerSC for a data collection plan

 

[tasar]

Today i got my new Ac68U and now i have some "small" problems: First of all i flashed john´s 12B and make after that a factory reset. Then i restore the settings from my RT-N66U in migrate modus. But something went wrong, i cant open the Tools section.See only a half Windows from tools and a few seconds later i get a message, the IP and Port was changed and i have no acces to the router, only via telnet. After a reset i can connect via browser but Tools dont work...
Ok, so i think to make a next factory reset and config all by hand. But i cant reset it
In WEB UI i use Factroy reset but after restart, all was like before. So i press the reset button 10 sec. and after restart... all like before The only way to full reset was WPS button and power on.

Now i want to config and after some entries in LAN section, i dont see any client. Is this an problem in 12B ?

 

[john9527]

@tasar - sorry you ran into problems. The problem with the tools menu I've only seen twice before, one of which was someone converting a TM1900 to an AC68U. Somewhere there is a bad piece of data that I haven't been able to track down. So the factory reset was the right way to go...but I haven't seen where the gui option or reset button wouldn't work.

I'm not sure what you mean about the LAN section....it can take a couple of minutes after boot for the network map to populate the pulldowns with the client lists. So if that is what you mean, just give it a little time.

Did you happen to note the original code that was on the router?

 

[RogerSC]

Roger i happen to see this on the comcast forums not sure if it's related to your problem i didnt read the whole thread but it might be.

http://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Home-N...-IPv6-addresses-on-Android-phone/td-p/2521882

Don't know...the person who's phone it was wasn't having any problem with the phone, just me with the client list on my router...which cleared up nicely once that phone was gone *smile*.

Urp, just saw the request for a dump of the ARP table. Be glad to oblige next time. Right at the moment, I've switched to my R7000 with Kong's build 26970M, but I'll get back to the RT-AC68P at some point, for sure.

 

[ilicitano]

Please could anyone help me with some doubts/questions? I would like to install this firmware to improve my wifi signal.

I'm currently using the stock firmware 3.0.0.4.376_3861 on RT-AC66U and I have connected a hard disk with download master installed.

I know that I have to do a factory default reset but...
1 - Do I need to install/configure download master again?
2 - Will I lost my current files stored?

Thanks in advance!

 

[ceekee]

I have installed this fork Merlin fork 374.43_2-11E1j9527 and it works perfectly untill you choose System Info.

The result is an incomplete screen with partial system info filled and when you go back then there is the following message:
"Settings have been updated. Web page will now refresh.
Changes have been made to the IP address or port number. You will now be disconnected from RT-AC68U.
To access the settings of RT-AC68U, reconnect to the wireless network and use the updated IP address and port number. "

There is no possibility to login again. The router is functioning as normal but no login is possible. I know with a reset/reboot it is possible to login again.

 

[john9527]

I have installed this fork Merlin fork 374.43_2-11E1j9527 and it works perfectly untill you choose System Info.

You didn't say what level you had on prior to loading the fork code. Anything other than a different fork level or Merlin's original 34.43_2 and you have to do a factory reset after loading the code.

 

[ceekee]

You didn't say what level you had on prior to loading the fork code. Anything other than a different fork level or Merlin's original 34.43_2 and you have to do a factory reset after loading the code.

Thanks for the help. I had the last factory level and I haven't done a factory reset. I will try that tonight and revert back.