Rt-ac68u

[toor]

Try reading your OS logs!

Try posting something constructive.

 

[PrivateJoker]

Try posting something constructive.

I was being completely serious. If you think it's "interesting and a bit misleading" to see your router refer to a different model in its logs you would find a ton of similar weird referential examples in your actual OS code, and its logs.

Sorry if you thought I was in any way mocking or teasing you, that was certainly not my intention. I can understand how the mischievous emoji wink might have been interpreted with some hostility - one can see in its wry expression the depths of scathing contempt it holds towards all that can actually bear gazing upon its one, non winking, open eye.

 

[RMerlin]

interesting while a little misleading as well.

That driver is closed-source, as it's a commercial driver Asus purchased from Paragon. So, it has to be compiled separately from the firmware, possibly by Paragon themselves. Nothing Asus can do about it.

When reading syslog, it's always important to take the whole context. Many log entries are directly related to the few entries right before it. For instance, the log entry about blaming David Miller for all bugs - this is obviously related to the Linux kernel module loaded just before that entry, and not to the firmware itself.

Syslog was never really meant to be read by regular home users. It's a highly technical log meant for developers/sysadmins.

 

[MaX PL]

merlin,

how do you usually get the routers you work on?
do you buy them yourself, company sends them, or does the community fund the purchase somehow?

 

[ronan_zj]

I think Asus donates router

 

[RMerlin]

merlin,

how do you usually get the routers you work on?
do you buy them yourself, company sends them, or does the community fund the purchase somehow?

I bought the RT-N66U.

The RT-N16 was donated by a user who no longer used it. The AC66, AC56 and AC68U were provided by Asus.

 

[MaX PL]

oh wow. i didnt know you had the 68U already.
the whole intent of the question was to know when you'd get one and how you acquire it.

how long til you get a build up you reckon?

 

[PrivateJoker]

oh wow. i didnt know you had the 68U already.
the whole intent of the question was to know when you'd get one and how you acquire it.

how long til you get a build up you reckon?

Check this thread http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/forums/showthread.php?p=86742

 

[DaveMishSr]

oh wow. i didnt know you had the 68U already.
the whole intent of the question was to know when you'd get one and how you acquire it.

how long til you get a build up you reckon?

This question has been asked so much that I think Merlin has stopped answering it. I am sure that you must have found the answer already but just in case, Merlin has stated that he awaiting the firmware update from Asus for the RT-AC68U. That update should be issued this upcoming week or the following week. Then it could take a week or so for Asus to post the source code which is what Merlin needs in order to merge his code with the stock firmware. So it will be a week or two at least before there is a Merlin-based firmware version for the AC68U.

 

[RMerlin]

Actually, since I managed to at least get my USB3 HDD to work @ 50 MB/s with it, I decided to release a preview build

Consider this as something between an alpha and a beta build. It has received somewhat limited testings so far (I'm not running the AC68U as my main router yet as I need to take it down too often for flashing test builds, and this is a brand new router model), so testing was limited to the router sitting on my living room table, with an Ethernet cable connected to it. I don't expect too much trouble however since the HW is very close to the RT-AC56U.

 

[RMerlin]

oh wow. i didnt know you had the 68U already.
the whole intent of the question was to know when you'd get one and how you acquire it.

I received it a bit over a week ago. I just kept quiet about it so to avoid the dreaded "When???" question while I was getting acquainted with it.

 

[geops]

Actually, since I managed to at least get my USB3 HDD to work @ 50 MB/s with it, I decided to release a preview build

Consider this as something between an alpha and a beta build. It has received somewhat limited testings so far (I'm not running the AC68U as my main router yet as I need to take it down too often for flashing test builds, and this is a brand new router model), so testing was limited to the router sitting on my living room table, with an Ethernet cable connected to it. I don't expect too much trouble however since the HW is very close to the RT-AC56U.

Even with your firmware, the local to local through external address (with port forwarding) doesn't work when HW acceleration is enabled. As soon as I disable HW acceleration it starts working. Any idea where is this problem coming from?

 

[RMerlin]

Even with your firmware, the local to local through external address (with port forwarding) doesn't work when HW acceleration is enabled. As soon as I disable HW acceleration it starts working. Any idea where is this problem coming from?

HW acceleration is in a closed-source module. Only Broadcom has the source code to this, there's nothing that can be done about it.

 

[geops]

HW acceleration is in a closed-source module. Only Broadcom has the source code to this, there's nothing that can be done about it.

I added these new findings to my ASUS support ticket. Hopefully they will work with Broadcom to fix it.

 

[RMerlin]

I added these new findings to my ASUS support ticket. Hopefully they will work with Broadcom to fix it.

Pretty sure Asus is already aware of this problem, as the tip to disable HW acceleration was actually posted by an Asus employee Let's hope it can actually be fixed. CTF's design is fairly restrictive when it comes to iptables-based features. Kinda odd that the MIPS version of it doesn't suffer from the same issue as the ARM-based one tho, that gives me hopes that it could be fixed.

 

[mikey]

I got the AC68R from Best Buy yesterday and installed the 217 firmware from here. I know it was pulled from the Asus site but everything is working perfectly including port forwarding on 217. Wonder what the reason was for pulling it?

Mike

 

[MaX PL]

i wish asus' firmware didnt reboot the router everytime you make a change to the settings.

i want to keep this router online as long as possible, 7 days now, to see how stable it is long term, but at the same time, i think my port forwarding is screwed up so i want to make changes there.
my privatvpn speeds took a massive hit when upgrading to this router, and now i'm not sure what to do to fix things.

 

[RMerlin]

i wish asus' firmware didnt reboot the router everytime you make a change to the settings.

i want to keep this router online as long as possible, 7 days now, to see how stable it is long term, but at the same time, i think my port forwarding is screwed up so i want to make changes there.
my privatvpn speeds took a massive hit when upgrading to this router, and now i'm not sure what to do to fix things.

It will only reboot under very specific scenarios. For instance, if you change port forwards while you have HW acceleration enabled, a reboot is required to apply the changes. This does not happen with HW acceleration disabled.

This is a design limitation of Broadcom's quirky HW acceleration.

 

[MaX PL]

ok yeh youre right. i just disabled the firewall and it didnt reboot.

thanks for the heads up.

 

[RogerSC]

The RT-AC68U seems to be unavailable. Anyone know if there's a recall coming, or if they've stopped selling them until the firmware is fixed, or if they just need to build more. Makes me curious.