I am running Merlin 384.13 on an RT-AC86U. I love all the features, DoH, etc.
I have a situation which i can't seem to track down which causes the router to lock down forcing a complete reset when it happens.
Sometimes when I cycle the power or when it is cycled for me. The router will come back up with only the 3 right most lights on solid. The power, and two wifi lights. No other response from the router. When I watch boot up, the switch lights come on an cycle twice, then go out and the three come on and that is it. To recover I have to hold down the reset for 10+ sec, then given a 192.168.1.x hardcoded ip, it will respond to a ping on 192.168.1.1, but no web and asus recovery doesn't find it. Another cycle with the WPS pressed for 10+ sec will have it respond to a ping on 192.168.50.1 given a hardcoded ip and a pared down web interface where I can upload firmware. At which point I can put either asus or merlin and it comes up back on 192.168.1.1 and I can start reentering the settings. I can enter a fair amount of settings and everything is fine, but once I get pretty far in my set up the troubles start.
Everything operates fine until I do a reboot, then it often does not come back up and I have to start over.
I ended up entering a few settings, saving the config, and rebooting a few times. If successful, then I entered a few more and repeated. Eventually I came to a place where if I entered a new user and password for PPTP, then it would not come back up on the next reboot. It didn't make sense, but I had run out of patience to start over on testing, so I just left it out.
I have been running fine for a few weeks and made a few changes, and did a reboot and it locked again this time after enabling dual WAN.
Has anyone had a similar experience?
My settings file is 68k, does that have a bearing?
If I go back in firmware it doesn't seem to matter.
rearden
I have a situation which i can't seem to track down which causes the router to lock down forcing a complete reset when it happens.
Sometimes when I cycle the power or when it is cycled for me. The router will come back up with only the 3 right most lights on solid. The power, and two wifi lights. No other response from the router. When I watch boot up, the switch lights come on an cycle twice, then go out and the three come on and that is it. To recover I have to hold down the reset for 10+ sec, then given a 192.168.1.x hardcoded ip, it will respond to a ping on 192.168.1.1, but no web and asus recovery doesn't find it. Another cycle with the WPS pressed for 10+ sec will have it respond to a ping on 192.168.50.1 given a hardcoded ip and a pared down web interface where I can upload firmware. At which point I can put either asus or merlin and it comes up back on 192.168.1.1 and I can start reentering the settings. I can enter a fair amount of settings and everything is fine, but once I get pretty far in my set up the troubles start.
Everything operates fine until I do a reboot, then it often does not come back up and I have to start over.
I ended up entering a few settings, saving the config, and rebooting a few times. If successful, then I entered a few more and repeated. Eventually I came to a place where if I entered a new user and password for PPTP, then it would not come back up on the next reboot. It didn't make sense, but I had run out of patience to start over on testing, so I just left it out.
I have been running fine for a few weeks and made a few changes, and did a reboot and it locked again this time after enabling dual WAN.
Has anyone had a similar experience?
My settings file is 68k, does that have a bearing?
If I go back in firmware it doesn't seem to matter.
rearden
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