Recent content by David Kremer

there's no obvious fix, unless I'm missing something

Not sure, I upgraded to Merlin right away and have been using it for many years. I've always had problems with various settings disappearing after reboot.

I see, how can I fix that?

I could have restored the router remotely by uploading the RT-AX86U.CFG file but did not want to risk this failing

After a big tropical storm (and possibly a power surge), my router (RT-AC88U with firmware Merlin 386.12) came back with several settings completely wiped out: - SSH cert - VPN cert - DHCP manually assigned IPs this broke my entire network, and I had to set everything up manually again...

i will try this, thanks

FYI everyone this bug still exists.. It looks to be several years old, and happens on many different ASUS Merlin versions and devices. The way to reproduce is always the same: - router shuts down due to electricity outage (happens often in my area), OR the router is rebooted via the scheduled...

@ColinTaylor I sent you another occurrence of this bug with full logs

Ok just did

It happened again. Power outage and router restart with VPN disalbed (even though it says OpenVPN Server ON in the Merlin GUI). The only fix is to turn it OFF and ON again. This time I have all the logs, /tmp/syslog.log and /tmp/syslog.log-1. Can I private message them to you? Not sure if logs...

When I turned off the VPN and on again, it worked. Here's what happened in the log: May 5 07:26:06 rc_service: httpds 421:notify_rc stop_vpnserver1 ... May 5 07:26:48 rc_service: httpds 421:notify_rc restart_chpass;restart_vpnserver1 ... May 5 07:26:51 ovpn-server1[6635]: ovpn-up 1 server...

There's nothing of interest in the /tmp/syslog.log other than these lines: May 5 01:02:31 dnsmasq-dhcp[412]: DHCPOFFER(br0) 192.168.2.77 00:5d:59:b3:74:75 May 5 01:02:32 dnsmasq-dhcp[412]: DHCPDISCOVER(br0) 00:5d:59:b3:74:75 May 5 01:10:49 miniupnpd[1726]: SoapMethod: Unknown...

I realize I should have sent this, but by the time I checked the log was wiped. I'll provide this next time it happens. I assume /tmp/syslog.log is the log on the router.

It keeps happening. Due to many power outages in my area, I'm always forced to log in after every power outage, turn off the VPN, and turn on the VPN again. I wonder if the stock firmware (non-Merlin) has this bug too? I'd gladly switch just to avoid this bug. This is what the client side log...

How do I obtain server logs? I can ssh in and get them from a system file, or I can get them from the UI, thanks for any advice.