Recent content by dcoli

Hi, Time machine seems to work fine as long as you are in the OS, but I can't figure out how to attach to it from the System Restore screens when you Command R at startup and rescue your computer. The Time Machine doesn't show as an option from the Select a Restore Source screen, and choosing...

Thanks. I actually have an old router acting as a gatekeeper with a port exposed in the 9000's range, which forwards it to something in the 2000s range, which the asus router listens for.

Hello, I never found evidence of a virus on any computer, so I've put everyone on an isolated (no intranet, no internal communication) network. They just have to choose a different wifi network to print. The IoT stuff is all on its own network with one way access into it. All Sonos speaker...

Okay, I'll remove the Downloader then. I have everyone now on a per user isolated guest network. The IoT stuff can all see each other but I use absolutely no station to station networking except for printing. Now that they've discontinued Google Cloud printing I'll just have to show everyone...

I read on these forums that I needed to install this: ... to be able to use the package manager.

I must have read old information that said to install the SFTP server you had to install the Downloader option (I think it's an Asus provided thing) to get ipkg. I didn't realize Merlin already had opkg. I guess the good news is now all my stuff is backed up in two places: within my network and...

I had enabled that Downloader package on my router so that I could get the package manager that I installed openSSH with. Do you think that's a problem?

So far I've changed my router password and put my sensitive machines on their own isolated guest network. And turned off all the open stuff. Next I'm going to try to get antivirus on my kid's linux box.

I just happened to check VPN before I read this, and OpenVPN was serving. However, I might have done that when before I got sftp working, when I was trying to FTP over VPN from my laptop to the router. Hell. Unfortunately I turned it back off just now before checking if it was LAN only. When I...

rt ac5300. merlin 386.2 the ddns string was random, starting with a "a". The only other things I've done to it: - Install YazFi and set up an IoT guest network that the rest of the network could access, but couldn't access the main network. - Created a separate guest network, closed off from...

Thanks, yall. I haven't set up AIDisk -- not even in experimenting, I think. SSH and HTTP router access were set to Local only. But if they got to me by hacking a computer in my household, they wouldn't need WAN access to router, would they? They could have just done the sneaky stuff to the...

This evening, while trying to figure out why my kid can't play Dragonvale over Wifi, I discovered that DDNS was enabled on my router -- i had one of those asuscomm domain names assigned to me. Worse, Samba was turned on. I have two USB drives where I sftp restic and duplicity backups from a...

I'm having the same problem with the .2 version and an RT-AC5300. Actually, the first time I tried to upgrade I did a reset afterwards and uploaded my config and jffs. Had weird dropping problems, so uploaded firmware again with hard reset and started config from scratch (I don't remember if I...

At the risk of thread creep, is anyone else seeing the interface crash periodically while perusing all the merlin goodies?

.9 was the latest in the OneDrive mirror, but I see the .19 version in SourceForge. And that seems to be flashing. Thanks! Someone might want to update the mirror.