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After entering the website, I am partially logged out

Fantom19

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Do you have a problem where when you connect to your router via the web, you're logged out, but most things work?
After a few days without logging in, I simply go to the website, and some things show up, and some don't.
I can practically see everything, but saving the settings doesn't seem to work anywhere anymore.
I have to click "log out," log in again, and then everything is fine. So, in my opinion, there's some kind of cookie misinterpretation. It should go straight to the login page.

I've had this problem for several years now, and on my second router (AC86U, AX86U).
Asus support basically ignores it and says it's the browser's fault. But in my opinion, it's simply a security flaw.
 

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First, it would be helpful if you provide context on your setup including which router model you are having an issue with and what firmware the router is running. If running Asus-Merlin firmware, are you running any addon scripts?

Second, it appears you have a USB device attached. Are you using that USB device for file storage using the router's Samba/SMB server? If so extremely high RAM usage is expected behavior when you do a lot of read/writing to that external USB storage device. Over time excessively high RAM usage may lead to router issues or unexpected router behaviors. Use the forum search feature to find a number of past discussions on how to possibly deal with excessively high RAM usage including using SSH to issue a command to clear the cache on the router which temporarily will drop the RAM usage. For example see this post. But continued Samba/SMB usage will drive the RAM usage right back up over 90% after clearing the router's cache.

Standard reminder. The router is not a network attached storage device (NAS). If you need a NAS it is wise to either buy or build a separate NAS and not tax the router. It is easy to overtax the router's limited hardware if you enable many of it's options.
 
First, it would be helpful if you provide context on your setup including which router model you are having an issue with and what firmware the router is running. If running Asus-Merlin firmware, are you running any addon scripts?

Second, it appears you have a USB device attached. Are you using that USB device for file storage using the router's Samba/SMB server? If so extremely high RAM usage is expected behavior when you do a lot of read/writing to that external USB storage device. Over time excessively high RAM usage may lead to router issues or unexpected router behaviors. Use the forum search feature to find a number of past discussions on how to possibly deal with excessively high RAM usage including using SSH to issue a command to clear the cache on the router which temporarily will drop the RAM usage. For example see this post. But continued Samba/SMB usage will drive the RAM usage right back up over 90% after clearing the router's cache.

Standard reminder. The router is not a network attached storage device (NAS). If you need a NAS it is wise to either buy or build a separate NAS and not tax the router. It is easy to overtax the router's limited hardware if you enable many of it's options.

At the moment I using AX86U PRO with 3.0.0.6.102_34349
But I'd used two others before (one was definitely the AC86U) and had the exact same effect. And it's been several years, so the firmware version has changed many times.

Regarding the SSD's memory usage, I'm aware of it. I'm not reporting the issue here. It's cache usage, and I know that.
I just pointed out that even on a single screen, you can see that some data is available and some isn't. If you go to any submenu, everything is available, so there's no way to show the difference.
 

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