Restoring the factory defaults will clear your nvram.Any ideas on getting to the bottom of it?
Totally well said. The ASUS router only made sense because merlin's fork exists. Some functionalities are critically required specially for the ones that need VPN's running correctly.With all honesty and sincerity
If there was not the Merlin firmware, I would have never bought an Asus router.
I bought an Asus router just because there is Merlin firmware.
Thank You.
With that it's becoming increasingly clear ASUSWRT-Merlin is coming to an end at a point in the near future.(...)
I'm getting fed up with this closed source non-sense. Two new features appeared in a recent 382 GPL, and both of these are also closed source now.
Quick listing of stuff that is now closed source in 382 (beside the obvious BWDPI/Tuxera/Broadcom stuff):
- Networkmap
- OpenVPN
- JFFS backup
- Let's Encrypt
- httpd's MIME handler
- rc notification functions
- Notification Center
- AiCloud sync clients (FTP/dropbox/etc...)
- Printer server
- Protection Service
This is going to ultimately kill this project.
I guess, an LTS version of the 380 branch is out of the question in the long run for you @RMerlin?
I haven't taken any decision yet. It will depend a lot on Asus' own move. If they keep the currently supported models on the 380 branch, then I can keep going as it is right now, with the added burden of dealing with missing/incompatible binary blobs. If they move some models to 382, then I will have to see at that time at what stability level the final 380 code is. Right now, I'm not happy with a few things in 380 (broken Traditional QoS, still unreliable Dual WAN). Those are beyond my ability to fix myself, so if Asus doesn't fix these before they abandon 380. then I'll have to take that into consideration.
And Asus might still surprise me. I've been getting mixed signals from them this last year, so I'm not sure where they stand. One moment they seem to ignore my emails, and out of the blue I would get an Email from them where they do mention looking into finding ways to better cooperate with the third party development base (among other things).
Bottom line, if I end up having to go down a LTS route, that would mean a different project. Remember that the original goal of this project was to enhance the stock firmware, and staying in-sync with it. If I go out of sync, it becomes a different project.
Currently what benefit do you see with the GT vs the regular AC5300. Do the ports really matter, you could get a switch if additional slots are needed. I was on the fence of buying the GT-AC5300 when a friend of mine took my regular AC 5300 away as he needed the same setup. I saw an opportunity to upgrade to the GT version then and realized the lack of support of merlin and the bugs, I decided to get the regular AC5300 back again. The UI is fine. the stability is perfect. If I were you, I'd return the GT vs. waiting for merlin to support it. because its not sure he would do it anytime soon.Any chance to see the GT-AC5300 supported soon? The stock firmware has an interface that may appeal to gamers but that is difficult on the eyes, and buggy (updates to manual DHCP list do not get saved half of the time, plus are limited to 64). If not for the 8 ports and possibility to get Merlin later, it would go back to the shop asap...
Bottom line, if I end up having to go down a LTS route, that would mean a different project. Remember that the original goal of this project was to enhance the stock firmware, and staying in-sync with it. If I go out of sync, it becomes a different project.
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