Aimesh access intranet

[matty125]

Hi,

Ive been running an rt-ac86u on Merlin firmware 386.3_2 for some time. In addition I have a couple of rt-ac68u as aimesh nodes (running same Merlin firmware version no ) and recently come into some issues where periodically can't connect to the admin console. My current setup is rather basic with a VPN server and one client configured. The only addin I have currently enabled is nsru.

In trying to trouble shoot I have reset (and initialised) the router and flash the standard Asus firmware to each node and re-added. I also used nsru to add back my config, but not the jffs partition.. on restart everything works perfectly, until I tried to setup the guest WiFi.

Whilst the guest WiFi works and is pushed to the nodes correctly, as soon as I enable access intranet = false, I can now longer access the router admin console. The internet still works as does SSH, but I lose access to the GUI console.

I fully accept this could possibly an issue in restoring a backup using the nsru config or more probably a lack in my understanding but does anyone know what could be causing the issue before I try the reset again without the restore..

Thanks for any help offered..

 

[pinkgrae]

What happens if you restart the gui via ssh?

service restart_httpd

 

[matty125]

Hi, thanks for the prompt response. Unfortunately it simply returns me to the login screen but then 'hangs' on a blank screen after submitting user name and passwords .

 

[matty125]

Just to close this thread, i rebuild the router from scratch this evening but still had network issues so suspect one of the aimesh nodes was failing. I removed it from the network and it's now working as expected so assume a hardware fault. Thank you.

 

[pinkgrae]

Good to hear you're up and running again @matty125.

For anyone else that comes along with the same problem: I was getting the same symptoms when running asuswrt-merlin on my nodes + VPN + guest 1 on wired backhaul: GUI freezes after entering credentials in login screen. Nothing in the logs. Solution in my case was to move the node to stock firmware (router remains on Merlin). I suspect that the above elements don't play well together in the current asuswrt-merlin firmware, perhaps causing the GUI to go into an infinite loop when it tries to load aimesh data.

 

[matty125]

Hi, thanks for your last update. In looking at my "faulty" node (that I took offline) for some reason it was still using the Merlin firmware - I replace this with stock (as per my other node) and reconnected and its been fine since.. fingers crossed this has resolved my issue - many thanks for your help...