NFS support missing for RT-BE86u in 3006.102.5 firmware

[zjarkov]

Has NSF support been removed in recent Asus Merlin firmwares?
I bought RT-BE86U as an upgrade, installed latest 3006.102.5 Asus Merlin firmware and found out I cannot have my usb flash drive as an NFS because the configuration for that part in web UI is missing :-(

 

[ColinTaylor]

NFS is not supported on that router.

asuswrt-merlin.ng/Changelog-3006.txt at main · RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase) - RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

github.com

  - NOTE: Wifi 7 devices don't support NFS (issue with new
          toolchain), QoS classification page (issue with
          TrendMicro BWDPI) or Wifi Radar (not updated by
          Broadcom).

Release - Asuswrt-Merlin 3006.102.2 is now available for Wifi 7 devices

Probably extremely low on your list (if at all) but would love to have the ROG GUI for the GT-BE98 Pro. ROG UI support was dropped in 3006: Post in thread 'ANNOUNCEMENT: Asuswrt-Merlin support underway for 3 Wifi 7 routers'...

www.snbforums.com

 

[bennor]

See the 3006.102.1 firmware release notes:

Changelog (3006) | Asuswrt-Merlin

www.asuswrt-merlin.net

3006.102.1 (28-Jun-2024)
- NOTE: Wifi 7 devices don't support NFS (issue with new
toolchain), QoS classification page (issue with
TrendMicro BWDPI) or Wifi Radar (not updated by
Broadcom).

 

[zjarkov]

Thank you guys.
That is indeed a bit unexpected. I am wondering whether there are any rumours about restoring the support at some point in the near future? Otherwise I am seriously thinking about returning the device :-(

 

[RogueScholar]

I must admit, having recently "upgraded" from a Nighthawk R7000 running FreshTomato to an RT-BE86U running Merlin, this loss of functionality is an ongoing frustration. NFS is such a mainstay for remote filesystem access on Unix-like OSes that it didn't even occur to me to explicitly verify that it would remain available following the transition. If anything, I was half-expecting that NFSv4 would finally be available, making this feel even more like a rug pull, though of course I have only myself to blame for not researching the matter in advance. Any deeper insights into what exactly the nature of the toolchain problem is and if there's a roadmap for restoring the feature would be sincerely appreciated.

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Thoughts in a more philosophical vein…​

It's starting to feel like it's been ages since getting a new piece of hardware could be reliably counted on to include some pleasant surprises rather than the bevy of abject disappointments it almost inevitably ends up being for at least the last few years. I've picked up a Lenovo ThinkStation P340, a Zyxel XMG1915-10EP PoE managed switch, Fire Cube 3rd Gen and a Motorola Edge+ (2023) phone as part of the normal device wear/replacement cycle in the last 2–3 years, and honestly I've wanted to return each and every one upon getting familiar with them, except I couldn't identify any alternatives that didn't have just as many inherent detriments. Am I just being too picky or can any of you relate to this as well? I'm constantly on the lookout for turning into the cliché "grouchy old man" attitude now that I'm middle-aged, but overall I'm still pretty chipper and happy-go-lucky about most things not having to do with watching my country descend into a racist, authoritarian hellscape. It's really just the state of technology that regularly bums me out.

 

[ColinTaylor]

@RogueScholar There's an Entware package for NFS that might work on your router. Obviously you'd have to configure it by hand rather than through the webUI.

# opkg info nfs-kernel-server
Package: nfs-kernel-server
Version: 2.8.3-1
Depends: libc, libssp, librt, libpthread, libblkid, libuuid, libtirpc, libxml2, rpcbind, nfs-utils-libs, libkeyutils, libdevmapper
Status: unknown ok not-installed
Section: net
Architecture: aarch64-3.10
Size: 213229
Filename: nfs-kernel-server_2.8.3-1_aarch64-3.10.ipk
Description: Kernel NFS server support