Asuswrt-Merlin 3.0.0.4.372.31 is out

[mikeg]

My AC66U and sudden reboot....

Hello , I have Merlins f/w .31 installed and get sudden reboots , the only thing I can see is that the up time suddenly is a couple of hours instead of days.
Looks like it's time to test the DD-WRT firmware instead....

 

[Teeo]

Go to the Tools -> Sysinfo page, and see if HW acceleration is disabled - it will tell you what feature forces it to be disabled.

Never mind. I downgraded to 270.25 and the problem persists. Looks like my ISP has problems. I never had this behaviour before.

Keep up the good work

 

[GoNz0]

Hello , I have Merlins f/w .31 installed and get sudden reboots , the only thing I can see is that the up time suddenly is a couple of hours instead of days.
Looks like it's time to test the DD-WRT firmware instead....

clear the nvram if you have issues, do not restore a backup.

easy way for me is to open each setup page I need in a browser so I can copy and paste the settings back, never have an issue this way.

 

[RichardNixon]

No, you can use 443 for OpenVPN. The HTTPS admin interface is by default on port 8443 (but you can change that). 443 is used by AiCloud, but that can be disabled too. I actually connect (due to corporate firewall) to both SSH *and* OpenVPN on port 443 (http://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh.shtml, ryzhov_al was kind enough to add sslh to entware ).

I have the same setup. I still have crash the RTAC66U saving my keys.

 

[misiak]

Hi, I'm using latest Merlin's build and I've checked if HW acceleration is enabled. I found this: Disabled - incompatible with: <unknown>. QoS and IPTraffic is disabled.

Does anybody know what it means ? Thx

 

[Placeman]

Hi, I'm using latest Merlin's build and I've checked if HW acceleration is enabled. I found this: Disabled - incompatible with: <unknown>. QoS and IPTraffic is disabled.

Does anybody know what it means ? Thx

You may have had a feature enabled that prevents hardware acceleration. It appears that you may have, since, disabled that conflicting feature, but until you power cycle the router, hardware acceleration will not re-activate. Power cycle the router and report back.

 

[misiak]

You may have had a feature enabled that prevents hardware acceleration. It appears that you may have, since, disabled that conflicting feature, but until you power cycle the router, hardware acceleration will not re-activate. Power cycle the router and report back.

Thanks Placeman, reboot helped!

 

[mikeg]

I have never restored a backup setting and yes , I cleared the nvram before I installed the new f/w .....

clear the nvram if you have issues, do not restore a backup.

easy way for me is to open each setup page I need in a browser so I can copy and paste the settings back, never have an issue this way.

 

[though]

Hello , I have Merlins f/w .31 installed and get sudden reboots , the only thing I can see is that the up time suddenly is a couple of hours instead of days.
Looks like it's time to test the DD-WRT firmware instead....

haha. you are going to DD-WRT for stability? good luck there. that firmware has become a giant cluster**** the last few years. i suggest you do a thorough reset before AND after your merlin flash. if you are still getting reboots, redownload the firm and try again.

 

[RMerlin]

Hello , I have Merlins f/w .31 installed and get sudden reboots , the only thing I can see is that the up time suddenly is a couple of hours instead of days.
Looks like it's time to test the DD-WRT firmware instead....

I don't have any other report of router rebooting out of thousands of users, so most likely either your router is defective, or you have power issues. In which case no matter what firmware you use, that won't matter. If it was a bug in the firmware there would be far more reports of it.

 

[FLA NL]

I don't have any other report of router rebooting out of thousands of users, so most likely either your router is defective, or you have power issues. In which case no matter what firmware you use, that won't matter. If it was a bug in the firmware there would be far more reports of it.

With .3xx firmware I also have sudden reboots when using ipv6 dhcp-pd... When using .270 or 3xx with ipv6 disabled then the router seems stable... Don't think that is a hardware issue in my case...

 

[Balin]

I tested 372.31 and I had an issue with my Macbook Air connecting to anything beyond the router. It received an its reserved IP address but could not resolve any web pages, connect to skype and the like.

I reverted to 372.30_2 and I was able to open 1 web page and then I had the same issues as with 372.31.

I double checked parental controls and it was set up properly, ie only blocking internet access from midnight to 8 am. I completely disabled parental controls and was finally able to connect.

I am in the process of deleting the parental control profile and re-adding them to see if the issue still persists.

 

[jlake]

You have to reset the router to factory defaults. Then reconfigure it from scratch. Don't restore previous settings because that defeats the purpose of resetting to factory defaults. If you don't know how to reset to defaults, search the forum using the search.

You also have to remove your old wireless profiles.

http://kb.linksys.com/Linksys/GetAr...less_Network_Profiles_.xml&pid=80&converted=0

And lastly, don't forget to change your time zone.

 

[a5m]

I don't have any other report of router rebooting out of thousands of users, so most likely either your router is defective, or you have power issues. In which case no matter what firmware you use, that won't matter. If it was a bug in the firmware there would be far more reports of it.

Let me chine in here as a user who is experiencing random reboots. It randomly reboots as well as randomly drops connections. I tried two RT-AC66U's, both did the same. Seems to have started with 31_0, so maybe the new wireless features like beamforming and IGMP snooping that were added to the two radios are causing this?

This has become increasingly annoying, to the point that I tried to flash DD-WRT (which I am not a big fan of due to it's major instability). I got it to flash, but as soon as I set main connection type to L2TP the router would just die and become unresponsive. It look ~3 hours to try to connect to it under Recovery Mode and flash back to stock firmware.

Really starting to get turned off of this router and firmware. Thinking of picking up a Linksys or something.

 

[RMerlin]

Let me chine in here as a user who is experiencing random reboots. It randomly reboots as well as randomly drops connections. I tried two RT-AC66U's, both did the same. Seems to have started with 31_0, so maybe the new wireless features like beamforming and IGMP snooping that were added to the two radios are causing this?

This has become increasingly annoying, to the point that I tried to flash DD-WRT (which I am not a big fan of due to it's major instability). I got it to flash, but as soon as I set main connection type to L2TP the router would just die and become unresponsive. It look ~3 hours to try to connect to it under Recovery Mode and flash back to stock firmware.

Really starting to get turned off of this router and firmware. Thinking of picking up a Linksys or something.

If you use L2TP then try disabling HW acceleration, as this was one of the changes Asus did with recent firmware code (adding HW acceleration to PPPoE and related WAN types).

 

[RMerlin]

I tested 372.31 and I had an issue with my Macbook Air connecting to anything beyond the router. It received an its reserved IP address but could not resolve any web pages, connect to skype and the like.

I reverted to 372.30_2 and I was able to open 1 web page and then I had the same issues as with 372.31.

I double checked parental controls and it was set up properly, ie only blocking internet access from midnight to 8 am. I completely disabled parental controls and was finally able to connect.

I am in the process of deleting the parental control profile and re-adding them to see if the issue still persists.

Make sure the router gets the correct time.

 

[RMerlin]

With .3xx firmware I also have sudden reboots when using ipv6 dhcp-pd... When using .270 or 3xx with ipv6 disabled then the router seems stable... Don't think that is a hardware issue in my case...

I saw some recent stability issues from Tomato users as well with Ipv6, so I wonder if it wouldn't be a kernel level issue as both share the same old kernel.

You could also try disabling HW acceleration to see if it helps - I've seen Asus do some changes in recent FW versions related to IPv6 and HW acceleration.

 

[FLA NL]

I saw some recent stability issues from Tomato users as well with Ipv6, so I wonder if it wouldn't be a kernel level issue as both share the same old kernel.

You could also try disabling HW acceleration to see if it helps - I've seen Asus do some changes in recent FW versions related to IPv6 and HW acceleration.

I will upgrade to your latest version, disable hw acceleration later on today and see what's happening. "Normally" the router will reboot within a day.

 

[mikeg]

I have had earlier versions of both Asus and Merlins f/w on this router without any sudden reboots so I do not think I have a faulty unit....
But perhaps I should RMA it anyway just to get a fresh and perhaps better unit ?

I don't have any other report of router rebooting out of thousands of users, so most likely either your router is defective, or you have power issues. In which case no matter what firmware you use, that won't matter. If it was a bug in the firmware there would be far more reports of it.

 

[GoNz0]

I have had earlier versions of both Asus and Merlins f/w on this router without any sudden reboots so I do not think I have a faulty unit....
But perhaps I should RMA it anyway just to get a fresh and perhaps better unit ?

if it isn't faulty then you don't RMA it.