Recent content by bsiegel

Ohh, I had no idea this was a known issue. I thought something had gotten woefully messed up in my firmware or something. I guess the RMA process is also notably bad?

Experiencing a very strange issue with my RT-AC86U. Everything works great via the 5GHz radio (eth6), but when a device connects to the 2.4GHz radio (eth5), no traffic is routed. The most I see in the logs is that the client associates with the STA, a DHCPOFFER is sent, but no communication ever...

For what it's worth, I have the 86U and I've had pretty miserable luck with the dnscrypt-proxy installer from bigeyes0x0 as well. The proxy will stay running for a short period of time and then crash with nothing logged. Seems like this platform is just a pain in general...

Hi there, I've been trying to track down the cause of an issue where I am seeing 30-40% constant CPU usage by dnsmasq in 384.4 (can't confirm if it's new in this version, I was on a legacy version of the firmware previously). I flashed the new 384.4 and then re-initialized the device to clear...

Ah, sorry I did some searches but must not have hit the right keywords to locate that thread. Maybe consider making it sticky, at least until a build with a fix becomes available? It may be some time until / if it is assigned a CVE, but for now the vulnerability is at least catalogued in OSVDB...

Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up. A vulnerability in what appears to be all 376 builds of the ASUS GPL firmware was disclosed on 4 Jan 2015 that allows remote command execution as root from the LAN side. Details are here: (Edit: URL redacted - do not post complete exploit code or links to...