[Release] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.9 is now available

[WET]

No not this time , but Asus.
Are you still on the 384.8_2 version or below? This issue is suppose to be fixed with 384.9

Sorry I should have stated in my first post I am running 384.9 on a RT-AC86U.

 

[unknownz]

No, what I needed was the content of a specific config file, however another user provided me with his, and now it seems that the common element between the two of you is that both of you are using IPv6, so that might be the common cause.

Unfortunately since my ISP doesn't support IPv6, I doubt I'll be able to do much to troubleshoot this issue. I will have to see if it also happens with a HE tunnel, but that's a quite different setup.

im running on native ipv6 as well but not having any dnsmasq error. would u like a copy of my dnsmasq.conf file for reference?

 

[Magnus33]

No not this time , but Asus.
Are you still on the 384.8_2 version or below? This issue is suppose to be fixed with 384.9

Nope on the latest 384.9 for the RT-AC86U

 

[bluepoint]

Nope on the latest 384.9 for the RT-AC86U

Known issue from page 1.

dcd process crashing on RT-AC86U (bug in Trend Micro's code, outside of my control).

 

[cmkelley]

Known issue from page 1.

dcd process crashing on RT-AC86U (bug in Trend Micro's code, outside of my control).

The dcd crash isn't connected to httpd becoming unresponsive. httpd problems have been ongoing a long time, dcd crashes are recent. If httpd were actually crashing, there's a system process (I think) that would detect it and restart it, like it does with dcd.

 

[tallytr]

I never ever had that with any router before. RT-AC86U on Merlin 384.9, holy cow!
This thing will run forever without need for rebooting...before had to typically reboot every week for sure.

17 days 20 hours 0 minute(s) 13 seconds

 

[hjohan13]

It is odd since everything works fine but the UI is unreachable.

Has happened to me several times also. Not accessible from Microsoft Edge. But fully ok from Firefox.

 

[Magnus33]

Has happened to me several times also. Not accessible from Microsoft Edge. But fully ok from Firefox.

That hints to what it could be caused by which would explain why its been a hard nut to crack.

 

[Butterfly Bones]

Have noticed there is a UI lockup at times which may coincide with increased connection to the router.

The UI becomes unreachable and a restart is needed to get access again.

Everything else seems to work though be it wifi and wired connections even if the UI isn't reachable.

AC86U

I've had this happen on my AC86U as well, with the last 3 or 4 releases. I finally found a solution that works for me. The unresponsiveness occurs after about 2 weeks uptime. I set up a cron job in my /jffs/scripts/services-start script with this line that restarts httpd daemon every Sunday morning at 0715 hours.

cru a httpd_restart "15 7 * * * Sun /sbin/service restart_httpd"

I used the Scheduled LED control from the RMerlin Wiki to set up led control previously in /jffs/scripts/service-start, so I just added the cru line for restart_httpd to it and restarted services-start.
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/Scheduled-LED-control

This morning my UI was unresponsive to the web, but I could open a terminal and used just the restart_httpd command and immediately got the AC86U login page in my browser. (Chrome on Linux)

 /sbin/service restart_httpd

 

[hoang51]

I'm not sure if anybody experienced what I experienced recently:

I remotely viewed my RT-AC68R with HTTPS (with Merlin's 384.9 firmware running for 12 days) and saw that CPU core #2 was at 100% for a while. This wasn't normal, so I decided to reboot the router (GUI reboot button). I waited for the reboot to finish but I couldn't remotely log back into my router after a few minutes. I attributed the failed login due to DDNS not updating to new IP address (v4). Hours later, I still couldn't reboot it. Came home a couple of days later, logged into the router via computer WLAN, GUI shows internet disconnected, CPU utilization normal (few % for both cores). Did GUI reboot again. Still shows internet disconnected. Decided to pull the power and start the router back up. Internet is available again.

I never experienced this type of reboot failure before.

 

[QuikSilver]

I'm not sure if anybody experienced what I experienced recently:

I remotely viewed my RT-AC68R with HTTPS (with Merlin's 384.9 firmware running for 12 days) and saw that CPU core #2 was at 100% for a while. This wasn't normal, so I decided to reboot the router (GUI reboot button). I waited for the reboot to finish but I couldn't remotely log back into my router after a few minutes. I attributed the failed login due to DDNS not updating to new IP address (v4). Hours later, I still couldn't reboot it. Came home a couple of days later, logged into the router via computer WLAN, GUI shows internet disconnected, CPU utilization normal (few % for both cores). Did GUI reboot again. Still shows internet disconnected. Decided to pull the power and start the router back up. Internet is available again.

I never experienced this type of reboot failure before.

Sounds similar to this thread....
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/after-384-9-update-internet-shows-disconnected.55144/#post-467452

 

[AntonK]

I never ever had that with any router before. RT-AC86U on Merlin 384.9, holy cow!
This thing will run forever without need for rebooting...before had to typically reboot every week for sure.

17 days 20 hours 0 minute(s) 13 seconds

I'm with ya' tallytr! A big 15 days 21 hours 57 minute(s) 5 seconds here on my AC88U, and indeed it would be longer but a couple of reboots early on take safely make some significant settings changes. She's smokin'!!

 

[Frank Hauptle]

opss
Same thread , same model !
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/r...-9-is-now-available.54843/page-22#post-467159

yep.. except I've not had anything in the ports for years and I rebooted the router twice in the process of trying to flash it.

 

[Artz]

I still have problems connecting my Squeezebox Boom via WiFi. I also get occasional disconnects from my laptop where I never had problems before. Is there a way to debug WiFi connections so I can find out where the problems lies? Otherwise I would need to factory reset it completely and start from scratch

 

[skeal]

I still have problems connecting my Squeezebox Boom via WiFi. I also get occasional disconnects from my laptop where I never had problems before. Is there a way to debug WiFi connections so I can find out where the problems lies? Otherwise I would need to factory reset it completely and start from scratch

Do yourself a solid, reset the router and manually config.

 

[Artz]

Do yourself a solid, reset the router and manually config.

I will at the end definitely do that. I just want to know why this happened, so it will not happen again in the future. Maybe it is unrelated to whatever I configured.

 

[Butterfly Bones]

Hi, Guys after this update my client VPN connection is now broken to my VPN provider. All of a sudden get authentication error and even after updating the pull-filter ignore "auth token" within custom.

The version before
384.9
is still working great.

I have an AC86U with Merlin 384.9 and full time OpenVPN client with that line, all on one line with no quotes as you show. My VPN connection has been up for over six days at this point.

edit - I corrected this post, quotes ARE there.

 

[HardCat]

I have an AC86U with Merlin 384.9 and full time OpenVPN client with that line, all on one line with no quotes as you show. My VPN connection has been up for over six days at this point

pull filter ignore auth token

Interesting! I use PIA and I just added that line but it had to be formatted as such to be accepted, or the VPN would not come up.

pull-filter ignore "auth token"

Cheers!

 

[G997]

Please make cooler status go from 30 to 80, starting at 50 is too high

 

[Xenus]

opss
Same thread , same model !
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/r...-9-is-now-available.54843/page-22#post-467159

RT-AC87U - no problems going from 384.7 to 384.9 and memory seems to be being released now instead of gradually going up and needing a monthly reboot.