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It appears that someone is trying to hack my router. Every time I try to login remotely, I am getting a message that I need to wait 5 minutes to login due to prior login attempts. Is there any way to see the IP address and user names and passwords from invalid login attempts in the router log...

I have two locations connected via a VPN, each with Asus Routers running Merlin 386.14_2. On the VPN Server router, I have "Advertise dns to Clients" set to Yes. On the VPN Client router, I have tried to set "Accept DNS Configuration" to all of the options (Relaxed, Strict, and Exclusive). On...

WINS is working great for me. However, my WINS server is a Windows 2003 Server, which I want to shut down. I don't have any other Windows Servers in my network. All of my computers are Windows 10 Pro and Windows 11 Pro. It doesn't appear that any of these computers can be a WINS server...

Please explain exactly how I am suppose to use DNS to replace WINS in my situation. I am using the default DNS Server in the ASUS routers in my network. When I do an nslookup on the computers at a location, all of the computers at that location are resolved correctly. I have configured the...

I have a multi-location VPN network using Asus Routers running Merlin firmware. Each location has multiple Window 10 and 11 computers. I have been using a WINS Server so that the computers at each location can access computers at remote locations. I would like to shut down my WINS Server and...

I have the following network: RT-AC88U Main Router with Merlin 386.7 RT-AC68P AIMesh Node with Merlin 386.7 RT-AC68R AIMesh Node with Merlin 386.7 RT-AC68U AIMesh Node with Merlin 386.7_2 The main router has regular wifi SSIDs configured which work properly thruout the network. In...

I have been using Afraid.org as by DDNS server on numerous Asus routers for years with no problems. This evening none of my DDNS domains work anymore. They are all configured using chickenkiller.com. I can't ping any any of my domains. Also pinging chickenkiller.com does not work. I am...

I did a little more experimenting today. I loaded the latest stock Asus firmware into the RT-AC66U_B1 router and configured it as an aiMesh node. Connected the WAN port to a LAN port on the RT-AC68P main router running Merlin 386.7_2 and then searched for a new aiMesh node from the main...

I have an RT-AC68P router as my main router running Merlin 386.7_2. I have a second router (RT-AC66_B1) also running Merlin 386.7_2. I am trying to add the RT-AC66 as an aiMesh node to the main router. I have configured this router as an aiMesh Node. When I try to add the node to the main...

I have an RT-AC68U router that is having intermittent issues. I suspect that it may be a hardware problem. Are there any diagnostics available to test Asus router hardware?

I am manually entering the username and password and then click on the + icon. The Username and the password I entered are then visible in the username list. After I click Apply and then click on the Show Passwords checkbox, the password is not what I entered, but a random string of characters.

I am trying to configure a PPTP Server on an RT-AC88U router running Asus Merlin 386.7. When I enter a username and password, click on + and then apply, when I show passwords, the password for the username I entered is a completely random computer generated string. How can I get the router to...

If I turn off the OpenVPN Server at the remote router everything works fine. If I turn the remote router's OpenVPN Server back on, the problem resurfaces, apparently because the Routing Table is using the Server's VPN subnet address, rather than the VPN subnet address that is assigned to the...

I have two locations that I am trying to connect using the OpenVPN capabilities of Asus-Merlin. Our headquarters location has an RT-AC88U (Merlin Ver 386.7) router with an OpenVPN server configured as shown in the attached pdf. The remote location has an RT-AC68U (Merlin Ver 386.7_2) router...

I have an RT-AC88U router running Merlin 386.7 as my main AiMesh router. I have one RT-AC68R and one RT-AC68P connected to the main router as AiMesh Nodes. Both nodes are also running Merlin 386.7. Both have hardwired connections to the main router. I have a very baffling problem. When I...