Linksys Security updates

[sm00thpapa]

I have seen that Linksys has updated almost all of their routers in the past few months. In the notes they all had some sort of security fix. The WRT1900AC V1 hasn't been updated since June 2015. So are they saying this router doesn't need the security updates that all the other routers have had or have they just forgotten about the WRT1900AC V1?

 

[Pierino]

Since the wrt1900ac v1 they have released the v2, wrt1900acs v1 and v2, wrt3200acm and are working on a variant of that.
Plus the ea9500, ea9300, ea8500, etc.
You can't expect them to support ancient tech like the wrt1900acV1?
Like the old commercial used to say "what do you think this is Wendy's (asus)"

 

[sfx2000]

Actually the "fix" would be applicable to all within the WRT family, and this would be fairly straightforward to implement in their buildroot - esp. since this is pretty much all UI changes to disable certain features...

 

[sm00thpapa]

Why do the current routers just need a security fix and the 1900ACv1 don't is what I'm saying.

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[sfx2000]

Why do the current routers just need a security fix and the 1900ACv1 don't is what I'm saying.

It does...

It's an older device, but there's a huge amount of common code - the build target is slightly different (Armada XP vs. Armada 38x), but at the UI level, they should be able to backport the fixes...

 

[sm00thpapa]

Guess what new firmware out for the WRT1900AC V1. Guess Linksys heard me.

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[sfx2000]

Guess what new firmware out for the WRT1900AC V1. Guess Linksys heard me.

Nice that the V1 got some attention - now perhaps they can roll some updates for the V2 - ACS did get the update...

 

[sm00thpapa]

Nice that the V1 got some attention - now perhaps they can roll some updates for the V2 - ACS did get the update...

SFX2000 do you know what's the difference between the ACS V1 and V2.

 

[Boggess]

Guess what new pre workout and firmware out for the WRT1900AC V1. Guess Linksys heard me.

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Do they update automatically as I haven't had any update warnings.

 

[sm00thpapa]

Do they update automatically as I haven't had any update warnings.

If Auto is checked it should. If not just manually update it. That's what I did.

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[sfx2000]

SFX2000 do you know what's the difference between the ACS V1 and V2.

It's a low level change... mainly with items in the device tree, and contents within...

The difference is in how the marvell wifi driver reads the powertable for the region - some devices have the powertable in the device tree, and others, it's embedded inside the mwlwifi binary firmware blob...

Can't switch builds - e.g. flash v2 into v1 or vice versa - one will get a device with very low Tx power...

Why? Goes back to FCC compliance...

shelby (1900ACS) and Caiman (1200ac) - both got caught in this change - the DT is also the reason why one shouldn't try to flash ACS firmware into AC v2 (cobra).

 

[sfx2000]

shelby (1900ACS) and Caiman (1200ac) - both got caught in this change

Shelby and Caiman - no easy way to determine v1/v2 as they're the same board in uboot, and by the time the DT is loaded as part of init, the powertable is set for the driver - that's why Linksys has to support a V1 and a V2 version of the factory firmware...