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    How and where to shutdown unnecessary services and ports

    Thank you everyone for directions! Just for a record and if anyone else is interested I implemented the following to secure and lighten the router. The following iptables rules do not break anything in my setup: I couldn't find a civilized way to shut down the services I don't need, so I had...
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    What's the magic bedind: Merlin » LAN » DHCP Server » Manually Assigned IP: "DNS Server (Optional)"

    Sorry for resurrecting the old discussion. Can I put more than one DNS server in that field, e.g. comma separated list of IPs?
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    How and where to shutdown unnecessary services and ports

    You are right. There are posts. I believe I am resourceful and enjoy research, it's just quality of search results here is not great. Thanks!
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    How and where to shutdown unnecessary services and ports

    Hello, I am an experienced Linux user but this is my 1st ASUS Router (RT-AX88U, Merlin 388.1). When I setup and configure a new linux instance the 1st thing I do is get rid of unnecessary services and secure it on the network. I am interested in eliminating as many unnecessary holes as...
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    (RT-AX88U/Latest Merlin 388.1) Takes 5 min to apply any Wireless setting

    I am back in business, baby! Thanks Ozark I had to read up about the non-DFS channels. Indeed I had selected a DFS channel, not knowing what it was, solely based on how not busy the channel was in my neighborhood. As soon as I switched to a non-DFS channel, the WiFi started springing back to...
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    (RT-AX88U/Latest Merlin 388.1) Takes 5 min to apply any Wireless setting

    I am setting up my new RT-AX88U. I flushed it with Merlin and happy overall but one thing annoys me tremendously. Every time I make a change to any wireless setting (not just SSID or security) it takes between 3 and 7 min for the router wireless to come back alive (2G comes back somewhat...
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