RT66U Firing ARP-Requests all day (Waking my Synology NAS from Sleep)

[sfx2000]

ARP's are not the problem - they're required for network maintenance of the LAN, maintaining the routing from IP's to MAC addresses, simply put...

Anything in the firmware that is waking up a NAS is something more than ARP...

 

[Sergio]

vanq69er, thanks!
I added firewall rule also and everything is ok.
But it seems an enhanced Merlin FW is coming out soon.
See this http://www.snbforums.com/threads/37...ork-attached-printer.26529/page-2#post-236656

 

[RMerlin]

vanq69er, thanks!
I added firewall rule also and everything is ok.
But it seems an enhanced Merlin FW is coming out soon.
See this http://www.snbforums.com/threads/37...ork-attached-printer.26529/page-2#post-236656

I never said there was a new firmware coming soon. I only said that a workaround has been implemented in the development code.

 

[Sergio]

I never said there was a new firmware coming soon. I only said that a workaround has been implemented in the development code.

Right you are, sorry!

 

[jrmtz85]

I never said there was a new firmware coming soon. I only said that a workaround has been implemented in the development code.

Hi there! I've been running into this issue as well, so I'm glad to see the fix.
I saw this for in the changelog for 380.58:
Added Tweaks and Hacks settings to Tools -> Other Settings.
These are UNSUPPORTED tweaks, intended mostly for
experimentation, or very specific situations. If unsure how
to apply these, manually reboot after changing them.
One of new settings there lets you disable hourly network
rescans, to resolve issues with NAS/printers coming out
of sleep every hour.

I just installed 380.62beta on my AC68U, and everything is running fine, except I don't think I see this tweak option there.
My choices there are:
Samba: Enable SMB2 protocol (default: No)
Memory Management: Regularly flush caches (default: Yes)
Miniupnp: Enable secure mode (default: Yes)
DLNA: Rebuild entire database at start (default: No)
Firewall: Drop IPv6 neighbour solicitation broadcasts (Comcast fix) (default: No)

Is it one of these? Or is the option no longer there?
Thanks for the great work!!

 

[sfx2000]

Is it one of these? Or is the option no longer there?
Thanks for the great work!!

It's the Network Map thingy in AsusWRT that is causing the problem...

Supposedly addressed in the 380 branches...

 

[jrmtz85]

It's the Network Map thingy in AsusWRT that is causing the problem...

Supposedly addressed in the 380 branches...

ah, is it baked into the firmware itself then?
the changelog made it seem like it was something I had to toggle to address the issue.

 

[RMerlin]

ah, is it baked into the firmware itself then?
the changelog made it seem like it was something I had to toggle to address the issue.

A later release from Asus removed the hourly rescans from the firmware, making this option no longer necessary, so it got removed in a more recent release.

 

[jrmtz85]

Ah, glad to hear it. Thanks!!!