Greetings! Sorry to ask rudimentary questions, I am just hoping someone will help me out. I recently had to perform a factory reset on my RT-AC56U after my nephew monkeyed around with it. Now, in my system logs, I keep seeing all my ethernet ports entering "promiscuous mode" and "forwarding state", and dnsmasq is running everything. I never saw any of this in prior logs. I am running 380.62.1. I have never intentionally used dnsmasq, had never heard of it until I saw the logs. I am in wireless router mode, have NAT passthrough all turned off, UPnP off, no VPN, using google DNS servers. I only use the router for my own home and just for a handful of devices. Is this stuff normal? Any ideas? Thanks much for ANY help.
This was the first factory reset I have done since getting the router initially set-up. Since then, I flashed two versions of Merlin's build over the stock build, but never did a factory reset (I am reading on this forum that a factory reset after a firmware flash can be a good idea). Could that be part of the reason I never saw the "promiscuous mode", "forwarding state" and anything about dnsmasq in my logs in the past?
This was the first factory reset I have done since getting the router initially set-up. Since then, I flashed two versions of Merlin's build over the stock build, but never did a factory reset (I am reading on this forum that a factory reset after a firmware flash can be a good idea). Could that be part of the reason I never saw the "promiscuous mode", "forwarding state" and anything about dnsmasq in my logs in the past?
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