Winner Winner Chicken dinner.
You know I searched and searched these forums and I didn't see that one. Good catch my friend!
(One of the disadvange of not running phpBB forums software I guess).
I had an epic fail about 5 times as I read it as "dnsmasq.conf" add file instead of...
LOL...
Goodness gracious.. I read that 5 times as "add file" .. sheesh.. I'm old.
Yeah... that was the answer!
All of my procedures worked the same (but now with the correct filename of "dnsmasq.conf.add" and I was able to reboot without the router hard resetting itself...
The only question...
Just to be clear... because I didn't see anything about creating the file or getting it in there in your instructions so....Yeah.. the first time I did this, my router went zonkers and locked me out. Couldn't even get in on a hard line.
Had to do a VRAM reset and of course lost all of my...
As I'm using 380.70, I would assume (maybe my first mistake) that any changes implemented in Merlin's earlier 380.69.x series would have been brought forward... (Would that be a dumb assumption?)
I'm in that phase right now of trying to figure out the various differences between builds... I get...
My question is specific in that I'm still using the last "official" 2018 pre-fork build of Merlin for the RT-N66U.
So far, it's been fairly stable; though the initial build scared the crap out of me thinking I had bricked it... the installation instructions failed to mention all of the details...