[Preview] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.3 pre-release test builds

[M@rco]

Another thing I noticed, which I never noticed before (allthough I'm not sure whether this is related to the 384 branch or something I just never noticed before): memory usage in the WebUI is way higher than reported by htop. I tried it with memory management enabled and disabled, bot show a difference between the usage reported in htop and the WebUi.In the latest alpha the difference seems even bigger:

Is this a known 'issue'?

The info I mentioned above regarding htop vs WebUI can safely be ignored. Thanks to those who provided their numbers.

As it turns out free -m and top report approximately the same values as the WebUI does, which are the correct ones. Apparently htop uses a different method of calculating free memory. Which is isn't incorrect btw, but not suitable for comparison. I found this explanation:

It is because htop is counting buffers and cached memory as free memory, because it can actually can be seen this way.

For those interested, full explanation is here.

 

[RMerlin]

Under Tools/memory Total memory is showing as 430.10MB.

This is normal, and has always been the same.

 

[Sanna1967]

VPN-Status page in french is still broken with this alpha.

Fixed with alpha_3! Thanx

 

[Sanna1967]

I do not know if it is a browser bug (firefox), but if I use the REBOOT button from the GUI, the percentage goes up, stick at 5%, but the reboot is done anyway after 1 min approx. Never noticed that before.
To be honest, I have not tested with another browser yet , will test it later tonight when woman and child are going to sleep.
Cant reboot now, they will kill me for sure

 

[skeal]

Ok I have an observation: System running all night. I connected a wifi device that is routed through a Torguard VPN. I noticed in QOS Settings that I hadn't given this device a priority on the Bandwidth Monitor Page. I made my selection and hit apply. This restarts QOS. Thus the problem; QOS does not restart gracefully (has fail log entries) and because of that if you have a script in firewall-start (QOS restart involves a firewall-start call) like Skynet it doesn't get started. To get Skynet running I needed to restart it manually then it worked like a charm. So it would seem you cannot restart QOS once running. Hope this helps track a problem down. Thanks I know you are busy with other stuff.

 

[bluepoint]

Just gave that a try, I disabled NAT Acceleration, enabled QoS and rebooted. Waited 5 minutes, but unfortunately nothing.
Toggled QoS off and on, waited another 5 minutes, but again, it's not working yet.
Classification rules aren't loaded either, so it's really not running:

marco@RT-AC68U:/tmp/home/root# tc filter show dev eth0
marco@RT-AC68U:/tmp/home/root# tc filter show dev br0
marco@RT-AC68U:/tmp/home/root#

Something else is causing your QOS to fail. Mine's been working through all Alpha's except for those QOS timing error starts. I used to restart QOS when I see those error logs but lately I don't even bother to restart and it works still.

 

[Zentachi]

This is normal, and has always been the same.

yeah I thought so.
I was stating the numbers for M@rco to see and compare.

Thanks Merlin for the great work on your firmware.

 

[LostFreq]

@RMerlin
I noticed that the /usr/sbin/arpstorm binary is missing from your 384 releases, while it is present in the Asus official 384 releases. You have it included in your 380 versions, is there a reason it disappeared in 382/384?

 

[M@rco]

Something else is causing your QOS to fail. Mine's been working through all Alpha's except for those QOS timing error starts. I used to restart QOS when I see those error logs but lately I don't even bother to restart and it works still.

Do you have an RT-AC68U as well? Mine is HW revision E1.

I just can't figure out why it won't work, when I see so many users having QoS working, I have never had issues prior to the 382 branch. It's rather frustrating. Even when I do a clean install, factory reset afterwards, power cycle to make sure nvram is cleared completely. Next, without installing anything else, just configuring my connection, QoS doesn't work. It just doesn't start, TC stays empty. Even when I'm not restoring any backups whatsoever, not even static leases, when haven't changed any of the default settings, still QoS won't work. It's slowly driving me nuts...

 

[hifiwifi]

AC1900P running 384.3_alpha3-g0462c71. Wired smart TV keeps trying to go through one of the running OpenVPN clients. Never been a problem before. I have to manually set a rule for WAN for each OpenVPN client. Using strict policy rules.

UPDATE: Only seems to be an issue when trying to run three VPN clients. Deleting the third client seemed to fix it. Other wireless clients were also defaulting to VPN, which causes problems for streaming services (3 rokus, 1 apple TV, smart TV, streaming bluray player).

 

[Gitsum]

Anyone notice if AiMESH is available on the AC88U with new alpha?

 

[SMS786]

Anyone notice if AiMESH is available on the AC88U with new alpha?

No AiMesh on any of these builds (alphas, betas, or stable). @RMerlin is still looking into the feasibility of incorporating AiMesh into the firmware..

 

[Lotta Cox]

Try reading or searching this very thread.
[Preview] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.3 pre-release test builds

 

[Vexira]

Do you have an RT-AC68U as well? Mine is HW revision E1.

I just can't figure out why it won't work, when I see so many users having QoS working, I have never had issues prior to the 382 branch. It's rather frustrating. Even when I do a clean install, factory reset afterwards, power cycle to make sure nvram is cleared completely. Next, without installing anything else, just configuring my connection, QoS doesn't work. It just doesn't start, TC stays empty. Even when I'm not restoring any backups whatsoever, not even static leases, when haven't changed any of the default settings, still QoS won't work. It's slowly driving me nuts...

manual or automatic bandwith? And is there a 384 build for your unit and have you tested it?

 

[M@rco]

manual or automatic bandwith? And is there a 384 build for your unit and have you tested it?

Adaptive QoS, manual, fq_codel, up 38 Mbit (>40 actual), down 380Mbit (>400 actual). DOCSIS 3.0 Cable connection, WAN Packet Overhead at 0 (gave the least bufferbloat and highest speeds at pre-382 builds). Currently on 384.3-alpha3 (build in signature). Thanks in advance for any help @Vexira

 

[bluepoint]

Do you have an RT-AC68U as well? Mine is HW revision E1.

I just can't figure out why it won't work, when I see so many users having QoS working, I have never had issues prior to the 382 branch. It's rather frustrating. Even when I do a clean install, factory reset afterwards, power cycle to make sure nvram is cleared completely. Next, without installing anything else, just configuring my connection, QoS doesn't work. It just doesn't start, TC stays empty. Even when I'm not restoring any backups whatsoever, not even static leases, when haven't changed any of the default settings, still QoS won't work. It's slowly driving me nuts...

Yes, I do have 68P which uses the same Merlin firmware as yours. You have indeed a unique problem. Does the stock firmware behaves the same as far as QOS?

 

[M@rco]

Does the stock firmware behaves the same as far as QOS?

I don't know, haven't rolled back to stock for quite some time. Can give it try tomorrow when the kiddo is back at school so I can take the network temporarily down.

 

[RMerlin]

@RMerlin
I noticed that the /usr/sbin/arpstorm binary is missing from your 384 releases, while it is present in the Asus official 384 releases. You have it included in your 380 versions, is there a reason it disappeared in 382/384?

You'd have to ask Asus why they don't include it in the GPL drop. I have to manually extract it from firmware images. I simply haven't modified the Makefile yet to include it.

 

[Vexira]

I don't know, haven't rolled back to stock for quite some time. Can give it try tomorrow when the kiddo is back at school so I can take the network temporarily down.

Have you tried freshjr script

 

[DaveMishSr]

Anyone notice if AiMESH is available on the AC88U with new alpha?

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/flash-from-advancedtomato-to-aimesh-merlinwrt.44419/#post-378578