Asuswrt-Merlin 380.59 is now available

[shpankey]

AC3200 here, can't access my web servers via dns name inside or outside of my LAN anymore on .59, ports all forwarded correctly. No idea what's going on. Going back to .58 resolves the issue.

 

[XuiKoh]

The QOS Are not often show in real time.
somehow i can't see which device are taking all the bandwidth.
it not in real time showing
furthermore i did some test with having a speed test on ookla speed test service and monitor the QOS bandwidth in ASUSWRT.
somehow it data area not show in real time or somehow it doesn't appeal at all.
either i need to refresh the web page or restart the router then only it perform slightly better.

the previous version 380.58 are performed better in this case.

hope QOS are getting better on next released.

 

[RMerlin]

Ok thanx a lot anyway. And what about this one? Any chance of getting it fixed?

I don't touch the Dual WAN or the USB modem support, as I have no way of testing it.

 

[RMerlin]

In webgui i see 71,8GB free space but in telnet 23GB
View attachment 6313

VANT@RTAC87U:/tmp/home/root# df -h
Filesystem  Size  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root  43.9M  43.9M  0 100% /
devtmpfs  124.7M  0  124.7M  0% /dev
tmpfs  124.8M  6.2M  118.7M  5% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock4  62.8M  2.1M  60.6M  3% /jffs
/dev/sdb1  916.9G  845.0G  25.3G  97% /tmp/mnt/sdb1
VANT@RTAC87U:/tmp/home/root#

Its normal ?

916 GB - 845 GB = 71 GB, which is what the UI reports. No idea why df would report 25 GB, the maths don't even make sense. Your disk's filesystem might have a corrupted bitmap.

 

[RMerlin]

I not tlaking about something I have scrpit/add/etc to the router I talking ask if it part of the software settings

It's a setting in miniupnpd, which has always defaulted to being enabled.

 

[Lucky8888]

As far as I know, the Astrill site only mentions Merlin as the router variant (of course plus DD-WRT and Tomato) Asus stock firmware is not listed.

So re-adding the module to Merlin would be a good quick fix for loyal merlin users. Astrill is why I switched to Merlin.

Edit: They list it as AsusWRT (Merlin) - not sure of that includes stock firmware or not.

Stock ASUS firmware is not supported with Astrill's router plug-in.

 

[RMerlin]

Wifi performance is whatever the closed source driver provides. It's outside of my control, and since half of the time people are posting totally opposite experiences with the same driver, I suspect that the vast majority of time, the issues are local to the user's network or the test methodology, and not in the wireless driver itself. It's not like the wireless driver has major changes every new firmware release - it barely gets any change at all between releases, except for the RT-AC87U's troublesome 5 GHz driver that seems to get rewritten every 6 months by Quantenna...

A few years ago, I did a blind test with some users, back when people were complaining about the RT-N66U wifi performance. I compiled three firmwares, and asked users to test them all, and tell me which one gave better results. What I did not tell them was that two of these three had the exact same wireless driver. The third one was using a completely different SDK (and that was what I truly wanted to see tested).

Here's what happened: some people were reporting better results with one of the two firmwares which had the exact same wireless driver.

Bottom line: wifi performance is much more affected by the environment and your configuration than by the wireless driver itself. Having the channel set to "Auto" for instance is a sure way to ensure you WILL get different results between router reboots, as you might be on a completely different channel between reboots. And sometimes that auto mode does pretty silly things (like last night, the RT-AC68U I powered up for some tests ended up using channel 10...) A firmware upgrade is also matched by a router reboot, which means your channel might change then.

Start by doing the usual troubleshooting, use real-life tests and don't rely on RSSI values or reported link rates. And making sure you don't have a computer launching into a Windows Update as soon as it just reconnected to wifi following a router reboot (I ran into a similar issue myself a few weeks ago, only it was my Carbonite backup that decided to launch immediately after the router was rebooted...)

And eliminate the variables. I can see my RSSI change just by the position of the laptop screen here when I test things out (antennas are located in the screen).

 

[mreckhof]

I know what the problem is, its the QOS our friendly QOS
I just enabled the bandwith monitor and it destroyed the VPN
So I guess the QOS is back to being a bad boy
No big deal I never use that QOS anyways its been a problem since day one and with VPN it doesnt work so no big deal.
380.59 works fine with VPN just dont turn on any QOS
This is with my 87 U

Curious if you're seeing the same thing I am - Do you have an asymetric network connection? Say X Mbps down and Y Mbps up? If os, swap the values in your QoS parameters and see if your VPN speed goes back to normal.

For me, with this latest update, I have to put my upload speed in the download box and vice versa. Everything then works perfectly.

 

[Sean Rhodes]

RT-AC3200 can't upgrade 380.58_0 to 380.59_0.
After uploading system said: Firmware upgrade unsuccessful. This may result from incorrect image or error transmission. Please check the version of firmware and try again.

I can confirm that also. I flashed my RT-AC3200 with 380.59 and when it finally came back up, it still shows version 58

 

[ozzed]

Check and see if you have QOS enabled. Even the QOS bandwidth monitor will crap your speed.

No QOS enabled.

Tested again this morning and now it's back to normal speeds. So either it's fluctuating or it was a one time crapout.

Does anyone know if the Quantenna drivers are also beta as they go with the Asus Beta firmware, or do they consider them stable?

 

[Veldkornet]

I can confirm that also. I flashed my RT-AC3200 with 380.59 and when it finally came back up, it still shows version 58

I had that when my USB disk was still plugged in, after unplugging it and then doing the upgrade it worked fine.

Either that or it was the browser, the time it was successful I also used Safari instead of Chrome.

 

[cowst]

So that page looks fine for you?
I usually go dirty unless instructed otherwise.
I'll search for that tool.
Thanks

Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk

more info on this before clean flash.

The App dropdown doesn't work on latest Firefox on Mint 17.3 for me, but it works on Chromium.
Also, this is the log of the logout I reported:
May 16 09:00:19 disk_monitor: Got SIGALRM...
May 16 09:00:59 watchdog: restart httpd
May 16 09:00:59 rc_service: watchdog 245:notify_rc stop_httpd
May 16 09:01:01 rc_service: watchdog 245:notify_rc start_httpd
May 16 09:01:01 RT-N66U: start httpd - SSL
May 16 09:02:23 dropbear[751]: Child connection from 212.249.8.5:9224
May 16 09:02:26 dropbear[751]: Login attempt for nonexistent user from 212.249.8.5:9224
May 16 09:02:26 dropbear[751]: Exit before auth: Exited normally

I dont't know what disk_monitor does, but it forces httpd to restart every time, so I basically can see once but not operate anymore dhcp.
I think I'll go back to .58 for now.

 

[yorgi]

Curious if you're seeing the same thing I am - Do you have an asymetric network connection? Say X Mbps down and Y Mbps up? If os, swap the values in your QoS parameters and see if your VPN speed goes back to normal.

For me, with this latest update, I have to put my upload speed in the download box and vice versa. Everything then works perfectly.

I am trying to understand what you did but not really sure.
If you look at the bandwidth meter when you use VPN your upload and download speeds register as upload.
anything you do wont make a difference at least in my case because I use policy rules therefore I have ISP traffic and VPN traffic and the way the QOS is atm it just doesn't work
if you try using both services. if you reverse like you did, it still wont work right because the QOS gives priority to Upload so it will never work right in my case.
maybe for you it might if you use all traffic though VPN but it still will never work right.
they have to fix this bug which they are very well aware of, but as I see Asus is lipsticking a lot of their firmware and forgetting the major issues!

 

[monakh]

Did a standard 'dirty' upgrade over .58. No issues. Thanks, Merlin.

Sorry to ask here but is there a way to import static hosts from a dnsmasq.conf file? I don't want to recreate static reservations for 40 plus hosts!

 

[kevinnaronha]

I just updated to 380.59 and it keeps logging me out every few minutes. I am not able to make any changes as it logs me out if I try to save or apply any changes. Any thoughts?

 

[Blinkyz]

I just updated to 380.59 and it keeps logging me out every few minutes. I am not able to make any changes as it logs me out if I try to save or apply any changes. Any thoughts?

Try accessing it with is IP, 192.168.1.1

 

[kevinnaronha]

Try accessing it with is IP, 192.168.1.1

Doesn't matter whether I use the local IP (192.168.2.1) or DDNS. It logs me out within seconds.

It is specially worse when I edit the client list.

 

[hellboy2]

Doesn't matter whether I use the local IP (192.168.2.1) or DDNS. It logs me out within seconds.

https://192.168.1.1:8443/Advanced_System_Content.asp --> Auto Logout ... set to 30 (minutes) and Apply ...?

 

[kevinnaronha]

https://192.168.1.1:8443/Advanced_System_Content.asp --> Auto Logout ... set to 30 (minutes) and Apply ...?

It was already at 30 minutes. Here's the recent system log (may there is something here):

May 16 12:49:12 login[32353]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:49:24 login[32359]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:49:36 login[32368]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:49:48 login[32374]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:50:00 login[32381]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:50:02 rc_service: httpds 31991:notify_rc restart_time;restart_httpd;restart_upnp
May 16 12:50:02 dropbear[424]: Early exit: Terminated by signal
May 16 12:50:02 kernel: klogd: exiting
May 16 12:50:02 syslogd exiting
May 16 12:50:02 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.20.2
May 16 12:50:02 kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.20.2 (2016-05-10 11:44:43 EDT)
May 16 12:50:02 dropbear[32395]: Running in background
May 16 12:50:02 start_nat_rules: apply the nat_rules(/tmp/nat_rules_eth0_eth0)!
May 16 12:50:02 hour monitor: daemon is starting
May 16 12:50:02 RT-N66U: start httpd - SSL
May 16 12:50:02 RT-N66U: start httpd
May 16 12:50:02 miniupnpd[32417]: HTTP listening on port 46272
May 16 12:50:02 miniupnpd[32417]: Listening for NAT-PMP/PCP traffic on port 5351
May 16 12:50:12 login[32418]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:50:24 login[32424]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:50:36 login[32433]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:50:48 login[32439]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:51:00 watchdog: restart httpd
May 16 12:51:00 rc_service: watchdog 450:notify_rc stop_httpd
May 16 12:51:00 login[32456]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:51:03 rc_service: watchdog 450:notify_rc start_httpd
May 16 12:51:03 RT-N66U: start httpd - SSL
May 16 12:51:03 RT-N66U: start httpd
May 16 12:51:12 login[32464]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:51:24 login[32469]: root login on 'pts/0'
May 16 12:51:36 login[32475]: root login on 'pts/0'

 

[VANT]

916 GB - 845 GB = 71 GB, which is what the UI reports. No idea why df would report 25 GB, the maths don't even make sense. Your disk's filesystem might have a corrupted bitmap.

i do fsck scan and still this same result. In windows i also see 25GB free