Phantomski
Regular Contributor
Hi,
yesterday I’ve encountered strange router behaviour, which was hard to point out (nothing obvious in the log), but probably involved Skynet @Adamm .
Setup
I’m using RT-AC88U with Merlin’s 384.18 firmware. I have an USB 2.0 8GB thumb drive plugged in, formatted with ext4 with Journalling / 2GB swap file and used for nothing else but few amtm installed and regularly updated / Entware addons (Skynet, connmon, spdMerlin). Skynet is latest v7.2.3.
Behaviour
- I tried to access webUI which displayed nothing but blank grey page (so it did connect, just didn’t load any pages)
- I tried SSH access which worked, but when I tried to load Skynet’s settings via
- Both problems were happening on repeated attempts
-
- I’ve tried to restart
- Eventually I’ve decided to reboot the router. I couldn’t do it by software, so I’ve switched it OFF/minute/ON.
Problem
- After successful restart, the Skynet didn’t load any settings which I’ve only noticed later (stupid me) from the hourly statistics - they were showing 0 IPs - 0 Ranges Banned - 0 Inbound - 0 Outbound
- Option Update Skynet didn’t help, It only again started working as before after I’ve selected options Malware Blacklist / Update and it loaded up the lists and stored them on the USB. This kept working correctly after subsequent software reboots.
- While it didn’t load the Malware blacklist settings, it still loaded my other settings from
Is it normal behaviour and I should carefully check after each reboot Skynet works correctly, or was it some strange one-off, or was it caused by hard reset?
yesterday I’ve encountered strange router behaviour, which was hard to point out (nothing obvious in the log), but probably involved Skynet @Adamm .
Setup
I’m using RT-AC88U with Merlin’s 384.18 firmware. I have an USB 2.0 8GB thumb drive plugged in, formatted with ext4 with Journalling / 2GB swap file and used for nothing else but few amtm installed and regularly updated / Entware addons (Skynet, connmon, spdMerlin). Skynet is latest v7.2.3.
Behaviour
- I tried to access webUI which displayed nothing but blank grey page (so it did connect, just didn’t load any pages)
- I tried SSH access which worked, but when I tried to load Skynet’s settings via
firewall
command, only the top graphics logo part loaded, but nothing else below and it got stuck, I couldn’t exit the script in any other way than closing the SSH connection.- Both problems were happening on repeated attempts
-
top
didn’t display any obvious problems, leaks or high CPU usage- I’ve tried to restart
httpd
which didn’t help the above- Eventually I’ve decided to reboot the router. I couldn’t do it by software, so I’ve switched it OFF/minute/ON.
Problem
- After successful restart, the Skynet didn’t load any settings which I’ve only noticed later (stupid me) from the hourly statistics - they were showing 0 IPs - 0 Ranges Banned - 0 Inbound - 0 Outbound
- Option Update Skynet didn’t help, It only again started working as before after I’ve selected options Malware Blacklist / Update and it loaded up the lists and stored them on the USB. This kept working correctly after subsequent software reboots.
- While it didn’t load the Malware blacklist settings, it still loaded my other settings from
skynet.cfg
, like my list of banned countries.Is it normal behaviour and I should carefully check after each reboot Skynet works correctly, or was it some strange one-off, or was it caused by hard reset?
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