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Is the Asus Merlin RT-BE92U ready for prime time? If yes, I suggest that someone indicate this is the case and we freeze this thread.

I am little puzzled by what I see in the log, resulting in said question.

RTAC68U Firmware Version:384.7_2 It was 2AM and I had no business doing anything that late at night. I tried to mv a file and ended up mv-ing it to /jffs/bin instead of /jffs/bin/myfile. I am in shock that I did this. To be clear: I no longer have access to to the files in what was the...

Symptom: My DDNS would not resolve in Safari / nslookup Observations: success: nslookup xyz.asuscomm.com 1.1.1.1 fail: nslookup xyz.asuscomm.com 8.8.8.8 Remedy: change DNS in router from 8.8.8.8 to 1.1.1.1 Question: Is there any setting in the router that will help Google's DNS service?

An Arris modem replaced the Xfinity modem. The Mac on the Wifi returns web pages (i.e. internet is working). The Mac is also able to ping the Honeywell thermostat: ping -c 3 192.168.8.121 I noticed two services that seem to fail: * Thermostat display normally reports outside temperature...

DDNS indicates "Unable to connect to the Internet": leaving me to wonder why? @ColinTaylor: Thank you for the reply. Router replies "Done." to Terminal command. ISSUE: nslookup does not return the WAN IP in the photo. I suspect this is because of the "Unable to connect to the internet"...

Firmware 380.70 DDNS: www.asus.com -> .asuscomm.com Is it possible to immediately force a DDNS update? Maybe from the SSH terminal?

A customer has asked to create a sub LAN with an Asus Merlin router. The DSL modem assigned the 192.168.1.84 to the Merline router: The goal is to have the DSL modem forward inbound SSH to XYZ.asuscomm.com to the Asus router. The DSL modem has been configured to do this, however...

The goal is to enable WAN access to 2 or more servers provide web services behind a RT-AC68U nextcloud.mydomain.com => 192.168.X.115 (next cloud web service) bbb.mydomain.com => 192.168.X.116 (big blue button web service) The post below indicates a reverse proxy function to examine packets...

All wifi devices were working prior to resetting the router's NVRAM. After the reset, Wifi service was restored and the OSX / IOS wifi devices are running well. DNS-based Filtering (Quad9 Global Filter Mode) was turned on and seems to cause a problem DNS resolution problem on in the Ubuntu...

@ColinTaylor Thanks for catching the error: link updated to https://sourceforge.net/projects/asuswrt-merlin/files/RT-AC68U/Release/RT-AC68U_384.14_2.zip/download

I maintain several routers and should keep a log for each one. That said, this router was upgraded from an older Merlin version, that was working perfectly (this is where the log would be handy). I have tried rebuilding the NVRAM with the procedure: ** Power off the router ** Hold the...

An RT-AC68U is outfitted with 384.13 performs as expected, except DHCP clients do not populate the client list: What diagnostics steps can be taken to determine root-cause and corrective action?

The goal is to enable Firefox (on Ubuntu 16.04) to remotely ssh-tunnel and administer the Merline home router. The command: ssh -D localhost:3000 [email protected] connects a BASH terminal to the SSH server (on the router). Firefox network settings was configured per...

Optware is installed on an Asus RT-N16 Firmware:374.43_2-39L3j9527 I understand that Optware is now superseded by Entware, but have my reasons for not migrating (yet). Goal: configure openssh-sftp-server to start at boot. What are the steps? Ideally these steps would be extensible to other...