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Asuswrt-Merlin - build 376.45 (xx-xxx-2014)
===========================================
About
-----
Asuswrt is the name of the common firmware Asus has developed
for their various router models. Originally forked from
Tomato, it has since grown into a very different product, removing
some more technical features that were part of Tomato, but
also adding new original features such as support for dual WANs.
Asuswrt-merlin is a customized version of Asus's firmware. The goal is
to provide bugfixes and minor enhancements to Asus's firmware, with also
a few occasional feature additions. This is done while retaining
the look and feel of the original firmware, and also ensuring that
the two codebases remain close enough so it will remain
possible to keep up with any new features brought by Asus in the
original firmware.
This project's goal is NOT to develop yet another firmware filled with
many features that are rarely used by home users - that is already covered
by other excellent projects such as Tomato or DD-WRT.
This more conservative approach will also help ensuring the highest
level of stability possible. Priority is given to stability over
performance, and performance over features.
Supported Devices
-----------------
Supported devices are:
* RT-N16
* RT-N66U
* RT-AC66U
* RT-AC56U
* RT-AC68U
* RT-AC87U
NOTE: all the "R" versions (for example RT-N66R) are the same as their
"U" counterparts, they are just different packages aimed at large
retailers. The firmware is 100% compatible with both U and R versions
of the routers. Same with the "W" variants that are simply white.
Features
--------
Here is a list of features that Asuswrt-merlin brings over the original
firmware:
System:
- Based on 3.0.0.4.376_2044 sources (from RT-AC87U) from Asus
- Various bugfixes and optimizations
- Some components were updated to newer versions, for improved
stability and security
- User scripts that run on specific events
- Cron jobs
- Ability to customize the config files used by the router services
- LED control - put your Dark Knight in Stealth Mode by turning off
all LEDs
- Entware easy setup script (alternative to Optware - the two are
mutually exclusive) (not available on RT-AC56/RT-AC68/RT-AC87)
Disk sharing:
- Enable/disable the use of shorter share names
- Disk spindown after user-configurable inactivity timeout
- NFS sharing (through webui)
- Improved compatibility with 3TB+ and Advanced Format HDDs
- Allow or disable WAN access to the FTP server
Networking:
- Force acting as a Master Browser
- Act as a WINS server
- SSHD
- Allows tweaking TCP/UDP connection tracking timeouts
- CIFS client support (for mounting remote SMB share on the router)
- Layer7 iptables matching (N16/N66/AC66 only)
- User-defined options for WAN DHCP queries (required by some ISPs)
- Improved NAT loopback (based on code from phuzi0n from the DD-WRT
forums)
- Advanced OpenVPN client and server support (all models except
RT-N16)
- Netfilter ipset module, for efficient blacklist implementation
- Configurable min/max UPNP ports
- IPSec kernel support (N16/N66/AC66 only)
- DNS-based Filtering, can be applied globally or per client
Web interface:
- Optionally save traffic stats to disk (USB or JFFS partition)
- Enhanced traffic monitoring: added monthly, as well as per IP
monitoring
- Name field on the DHCP reservation list and Wireless ACL list
- System info summary page
- Wireless client IP and hostname on the Wireless Log page
- Wifi icon reports the state of both radios
- Display the Ethernet port states
- Wireless site survey
A few features that first appeared in Asuswrt-Merlin have since been
integrated/enabled/re-implemented in the official firmware:
- 64K NVRAM for the RT-N66U
- HTTPS webui
- Turning WPS button into a radio on/off toggle
- Use shorter share names (folder name only)
- WakeOnLan web interface (with user-entered preset targets)
- clickable MACs on the client list for lookup in the OUI database
- Display active/tracked network connections
- VPN client connection state report
- DualWAN and Repeater mode (while it was still under development
by Asus)
- OpenVPN client and server
- Configurable IPv6 firewall
- Persistent JFFS partition
- The various MAC/IP selection pulldowns will also display hostnames
when possible instead of just NetBIOS names
Installation
------------
Simply flash it like any regular update. You should not need to
reset to factory defaults (see note below for exceptions).
You can revert back to an original Asus firmware at any time just
by flashing a firmware downloaded from Asus's website.
NOTE: resetting to factory default after flashing is
strongly recommended for the following cases:
- Updating from a firmware version that is more than 3 releases older
- Switching from a Tomato/DD-WRT/OpenWRT firmware
If upgrading from anything older and you experience issues, then
consider doing a factory default reset then as well.
In all of these cases, do NOT load a saved copy of your settings!
This would be the same thing as NOT resetting at all, as you will
simply re-enter any invalid setting you wanted to get rid of. Make
sure to create a new backup of your settings after reconfiguring.
Usage
-----
** JFFS **
JFFS is a writeable section of the flash memory which will allow you to
store small files (such as scripts) inside the router without needing
to have a USB disk plugged in. This space will survive reboots (but it
*MIGHT NOT survive firmware flashing*, so back it up first before
flashing!). It will also be available fairly early at boot (before
USB disks).
To enable this option, go to the Administration page, under the System
tab.
First time you enable JFFS, it must be formatted. This can be done
through the web page, same page where you enable it.
Enabling/Disabling/Formating JFFS requires a reboot to take effect.
I do not recommend doing frequent writes to this area, as it will
prematuraly wear out the flash storage. This is a good place to put
files that are written once like scripts or kernel modules, or that
rarely get written to (like once a day). Storing files that constantly
get written to (like very busy logfiles) is NOT recommended - use a
USB disk for that.
** User scripts **
These are shell scripts that you can create, and which will be run when
certain events occur. Those scripts must be saved in /jffs/scripts/
(so, JFFS must be enabled and formatted). Available scripts:
* dhcpc-event: Called whenever a DHCP event occurs on the WAN
interface. The type of event (bound, release, etc...)
is passed as an argument.
* firewall-start: Firewall is started (filter rules have been applied)
The WAN interface will be passed as argument (for
example. "eth0")
* init-start: Right after jffs is mounted, before any of the services
get started
* nat-start: nat rules (i.e. port forwards and such) have been applied
(nat table)
* post-mount: Just after a partition is mounted
* pre-mount: Just before a partition is mounted. Be careful with
this script. This is run in a blocking call and will
block the mounting of the partition for which it is
invoked till its execution is complete. This is done so
that it can be used for things like running e2fsck on the
partition before mounting. This script is also passed the
device path being mounted as an argument which can be
used in the script using $1.
* qos-start: Called after both the iptables rules and tc configuration
are completed for QoS.
* openvpn-event: Called whenever an OpenVPN server gets
started/stopped, or an OpenVPN client connects to a
remote server. Uses the same syntax/parameters as
the "up" and "down" scripts in OpenVPN.
* services-start: Initial service start at boot
* services-stop: Services are stopped at shutdown/reboot
* unmount: Just before unmounting a partition. This is a blocking
script, so be careful with it. The mount point is passed
as an argument to the script.
* wan-start: WAN interface just came up (includes if it went down and
back up). The WAN unit number will be passed as argument
(0 = primary WAN)
Don't forget to set them as executable:
chmod a+rx /jffs/scripts/*
And like any Linux script, they need to start with a shebang:
#!/bin/sh
** SSHD **
SSH support (through Dropbear) was re-enabled. Password-based login
will use the same username and password as telnet/web access. You can
also optionally insert a RSA or ECDSA public key there for
keypair-based authentication. There is also an option to make ssh
access available over WAN.
** Crond **
Crond will automatically start at boot time. You can put your cron
tasks in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ . The file must be named "admin" as
this is the name of the system user. Note that this location resides in
RAM, so you would have to put your cron script somewhere such as in the
jffs partition, and at boot time copy it to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/
using an init-start user script.
A simple way to manage your cron jobs is through the included "cru"
command. Just run "cru" to see the usage information. You can then
put your "cru" commands inside a user script to re-generate your cron
jobs at boot time.
** Enhanced Traffic monitoring **
Under Tools -> Other Settings are options that will allow you to save
your traffic history to disk, preserving it between router reboots (by
default it is currently kept in RAM, so it will disappear when you
reboot).
You can save it to a custom location (for example, "/jffs/" if you have
jffs enabled), or /mnt/sda1/ if you have a USB disk plugged in.
Save frequency is also configurable - it is recommended to keep that
frequency lower (for example, once a day) if you are saving to jffs, to
reduce wearing out your flash memory. Make sure not to forget the
trailing slash ad the end of the path.
Note that the first time you use that option, you must tell the router
to create the data file. Make sure you set "Create or reset data
files" to "Yes".
Also, Asuswrt-Merlin can track the traffic generated by each individual
IP on your network. This option is called IPTraffic. To enable this,
you must first set a custom location to store your traffic database
(see above). Once again, you must also tell it to create the new data
file, by enabling "Create or reset IPTraffic data files". Once done,
enable the IPTraffic Monitoring option. This will add three new
entries to the Traffic Monitor page selector (on the Traffic Monitoring
page).
You can optionally specify which IP to monitor, or exclude some IPs
from monitoring. Each IP must be separated by a comma.
It's strongly recommended that you assign a static IP to devices you
wish to monitor to ensure they don't get a different IP over time,
which would make the collected data somewhat unreliable. The
monitoring is done per IP, NOT per MAC.
** Adjustable TCP/IP connection tracking settings **
Under Tools -> Other Settings there are various parameters that lets
you tweak the timeout values related to connection tracking for TCP and
UDP connections. You should be careful with those settings. Most
commonly, people will tweak the UDP timeout values to make them more
VoIP-friendly, by using smaller timeouts. Timeout values are in
seconds.
** Mounting remote CIFS shares on the router **
You can mount remote SMB shares on your router. The syntax will
be something like this:
mount \\\\192.168.1.100\\ShareName /cifs1 -t cifs -o "username=User,password=Pass"
(backslashes must be doubled.)
** Disk Spindown when idle **
Jeff Gibbons's sd-idle-2.6 has been added to the firmware, allowing you
to configure a timeout value (in seconds) on the Tools -> Other Settings
page. Plugged hard drives will stop spinning after being inactive
for that specified period of time. Note that services like Download
Master might be generating background disk activity, preventing it from
idling.
** OpenVPN (client and server) **
OpenVPN is an SSL-based VPN technology that is provided as a secure
alternative to the PPTP VPN. OpenVPN is far more secure and more
flexible, however it is not as easy to configure, and requires the
installation of a client software on your computer client. The client
can be obtained through this download page:
http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html
Explaining the details of OpenVPN are beyond the scope of this
documentation, and I am in no way an expert on OpenVPN.
Fortunately, there is a lot of available documentation and Howto guides
out there. I tried to stick to the same option descriptions as used by
Tomato, so about any guide written for Tomato can easily be used to
guide you on Asuswrt-Merlin. For pointers, check the Wiki on the
Asuswrt-Merlin Github repository.
You can provide your own custom client config files for the two server
instances. Store them in the /jffs/configs/openvpn/ccd1/ (and ccd2/)
directory based on which server instance they belong to, with the
filenames matching the client common names. See the OpenVPN
documentation for more details on the ccd directory.
** Customized config files **
The services executed by the router such as minidlna or dnsmasq relies
on dynamically-generated config files. There are various methods
through which you can interact with these config scripts to customize
them.
The first method is through custom configs. You can append content to
various configuration files that are created by the firmware, or even
completely replace them with custom config files you have created.
Those config override files must be stored in /jffs/configs/. To have
a config file appended to the one created by the firmware, simply add
".add" at the end of the file listed below. For example,
/jffs/configs/dnsmasq.conf.add will be added at the end of the dnsmasq
configuration file that is created by the firmware, while
/jffs/configs/dnsmasq.conf would completely replace it.
Note that replacing a config file with your own implies that you
properly fill in all the fields usually dynamically created by the
firmware. Since some of these entries require dynamic parameters, you
might be better using the postconf scripts added in 374.36 (see the
postconf scripts section below).
The list of available config overrides:
* dhcp6s.conf
* dnsmasq.conf
* exports (only exports.add supported)
* fstab (only fstab supported, remember to create mount point
through init-start first if it doesn't exist!)
* group, gshadow, passwd, shadow (only .add versions supported)
* hosts (for /etc/hosts)
* minidlna.conf
* pptpd.conf
* profile (shell profile, only profile.add suypported)
* radvd.conf
* smb.conf
* vsftpd.conf
* upnp (for miniupnpd)
Also, you can put OpenVPN ccd files in the following directories:
/jffs/configs/openvpn/ccd1/
/jffs/configs/openvpn/ccd2/
The content of these will be copied to their respective
server instance's ccd directory when the server is started.
** Postconf scripts **
A lot of the configuration scripts used by the router services
(such as dnsmasq) are dynamically generated by the firmware. This
makes it hard for advanced users to apply modifications to these, short
of entirely replacing the config file.
Postconf scripts are the solution to that. Those scripts are
executed after the router has generated a configuration script, but
before the related service gets started. This means you can use those
scripts to manipulate the configuration script, using tools such as
"sed" for example.
Postconf scripts must be stored in /jffs/scripts/ .
The path/filename of the target config file is passed as argument to
the postconf script.
The list of available postconf scripts is:
* dhcp6s.postconf
* dnsmasq.postconf
* exports.postconf
* fstab.postconf
* group.postconf
* gshadow.postconf
* hosts.postconf
* minidlna.postconf
* openvpnclient1.postconf (and openvpnclient2.postconf)
* openvpnserver1.postconf (and openvpnserver2.postconf)
* passwd.postconf
* pptpd.postconf
* radvd.postconf
* shadow.postconf
* smb.postconf
* upnp.postconf
* vsftpd.postconf
To make things easier for novice users who don't want to
learn the arcane details of using "sed", a script providing
support functions is available. The following dnsmasq.postconf
script demonstrates how to modify the maximum number of leases
in the dnsmasq configuration:
-----
#!/bin/sh
CONFIG=$1
source /usr/sbin/helper.sh
pc_replace "dhcp-lease-max=253" "dhcp-lease-max=100" $CONFIG
-----
Three functions are currently available through helper.sh:
pc_replace "original string" "new string" "config filename"
pc_insert "string to locate" "string to insert after" "config filename"
pc_append "string to append" "config filename"
Note that postconf scripts are blocking the firmware while they run, to
ensure the service only gets started once the script is done. Make
sure those scripts do exit properly, or the router will be stuck
during boot, requiring a factory default reset to recover it.
** NFS Exports **
IMPORTANT: NFS sharing is still a bit unstable.
In addition to SMB and FTP, you can now also share any plugged
hard disk through NFS. The NFS Exports interface can be accessed
from the USB Applications section, under Servers Center. Click on the
NFS Exports tab.
Select the folder you wish to export by clicking on the Path field.
Under Access List you can enter IPs/Networks to which you wish to give
access. A few examples:
192.168.1.0/24 - will give access to the whole local network
192.168.1.10 192.168.1.11 - will give access to the two IPs (separate with spaces)
Entering nothing will allow anyone to access the export.
Under options you can enter the export options, separated by a comma.
For example:
rw,sync
For more info, search the web for documentation on the format of the
/etc/exports file. The same syntax for the access list and the options
is used by the webui.
You can also manually generate an exports file by creating a file named
/jffs/configs/exports.add , and entering your standard exports there.
They will be added to any exports configured on the webui.
Note that by default, only NFSv3 is supported. You can also enable
NFSv2 support from that page, but this is not recommended, unless you
are using an old NFS client that doesn't support V3. NFSv2 has various
filesystem-level limitations.
** Easy Entware setup **
Entware is an alternative to Optware. They are both online software
repositories that let you easily install additional software to your
router (such as an Apache web server, or an Asterisk PBX). The main
benefit of Entware over Optware (which is used by Asus for their own
Download Master) is it is very actively maintained, with recent
software versions.
Entware and Optware cannot be used at the same time however, so you
can't use Download Master while using Entware.
There is now a script to make setting up Entware ware easier.
Access your router through SSH/Telnet, and run
"entware-setup.sh".
Note that Entware requires the JFFS partition to be enabled, and an
ext2/ext3 formatted USB disk (NTFS, HFS+ and FAT32 are not supported).
Also note that Entware is not available for the RT-AC56U, RT-AC68U
or RT-AC87 due to the different CPU architecture.
** DNSFilter **
Under Parental Control there is a tab called DNSFilter. On this
page you can force the use of a DNS service that provides
security/parental filtering. This can be done globally, or on a
per device basis. Each of them can have a different type of filtering
applied. For example, you can have your LAN use OpenDNS's server to
provide basic filtering, but force your children's devices to use
Yandex's family DNS server that filters out malicious and adult
content.
If using a global filter, then specific devices can be told to
bypass the global filter, by creating a client rule for these,
and setting it to "No Filtering".
DNSFilter also lets you define up to three custom nameservers, for
use in filtering rules. This will let you use any unsupported
filtering nameserver.
You can configure a filter rule to force your clients to
use whichever DNS is provided by the router's DHCP server (if
you changed it from the default value, otherwise it will be
the router's IP). Set the filtering rule to "Router" for this.
Note that DNSFilter will interfere with resolution of local
hostnames. This is a side effect of having devices forced to use
a specific external nameserver. If this is an issue for you, then set
the default filter to "None", and only filter out specific devices.
** Layer7-based Netfilter module **
Support for layer7 rules in iptables has been enabled on MIPS-based
routers (RT-N16/N66/AC66). You will need to manually configure the
iptables rules to make use of it - there is no web interface exposing
this. The defined protocols can be found in /etc/l7-protocols.
To use it, you must first load the module:
modprobe xt_layer7
An example iptable rules that would mark all SSH-related packets
with the value "22", for processing later on in another chain:
iptables -I FORWARD -m layer7 --l7proto ssh -j MARK --set-mark 22
These could be inserted in a firewall-start script, for example.
For more details on how to use layer7 filters, see the documentation on
the project's website:
http://l7-filter.clearfoundation.com/
Source code
-----------
The source code with all my modifications can be found on Github, at:
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin
History
-------
376.45 (xx-xxx-2014)
- NEW: Compiled vsftpd with SSL support (must be manually
configured if you intend to use it)
- NEW: Report FA state (Level 2 CTF) on Sysinfo page.
- CHANGED: Updated dropbear to 2014.65.
- CHANGED: Updated openssl to 1.0.0n (numerous
security fixes)
- CHANGED: Updated lzo to 2.08
- CHANGED: Reworked VPN Server pages to be more intuitive
- FIXED: Garbled client dropdown selector on DNSFilter page
- FIXED: The Comcast neighbour solicitation block wasn't
enabled anymore (regression in 376.44) (Patch by
Sinshiva)
- FIXED: 5 GHz N+AC mode was incorrectly setting router to
N-only mode (Asus bug, fix backported from 2381,
additional fix by me for AC66)
376.44 (3-Aug-2014)
IMPORTANT: Make a backup of your JFFS partition if upgrading
an RT-AC56U or RT-AC68U and you have stored files
on that partition! The partition layout has been
changed.
- NEW: Merged with Asus's 376_2044 GPL.
Summary of changes:
* New networkmap, lets users edit device names,
assign icons to devices, etc...
* Reworked IPv6 support
* New filesystem driver provider for NTFS/HFS+/FAT
* Webui visual update
* Updated components (minidlna, radvd, dnsmasq)
- NEW: Added support for RT-AC87U.
- CHANGED: Updated N66U wireless driver to Asus's 1071 build
- CHANGED: Updated miniupnpd to Git head (as of 20140731)
- CHANGED: The JFFS partition on ARM devices now uses
Asus's code, which means the whole unused space
is now used for the JFFS partition.
(AC56, AC68)
- CHANGED: Made all ARM models use the new filesystem drivers from Tuxera,
resulting in general improved USB disk performance (and
hopefully improved reliability as well) (AC56, AC68)
- CHANGED: The wifi notification icon will now report
channel and channel width for the 5 GHz band,
as the extension channel wasn't always accurately
reported.
- CHANGED: Reworked layout of SSH settings on System page (based
on Asus's own WIP)
- CHANGED: Allow FQDN (hostname + domain) rather than just
hostnames on the WAN page (some ISPs require that)
- FIXED: Missing mDNSResponder daemon preventing mt-daapd
from working on MIPS devices (N16,N66,AC66)
- FIXED: System Log wouldn't properly be positioned
at the bottom (Patch by John9527)
- FIXED: DNSFilter clients configured to bypass DNSFilter
would still be prevented from using an IPv6 DNS.
- FIXED: Incorrect IPv6 prefix if not a multiple of 8
(patch by NickZ)
- FIXED: OpenVPN firewall cleanup was missing rules
(patch by sinshiva)
- FIXED: Minidlna issues with Philips smart TVs
- FIXED: SSHD brute force protection wasn't working if
Dual WAN was enabled and set to LB mode.
- FIXED: Miniupnpd error flood in Syslog when using a
Plex server on your LAN (fix from upstream)
- REMOVED: Reverted various IPv6-related patches as they
conflicted with Asus's own changes. These might
make it back at a later time if deemed
necessary.
- REMOVED: Removed layer7 filtering support in Netfilter from
ARM devices due to compatibility issues (AC56,AC68)
- REMOVED: Removed IPsec support from ARM devices due to
compatibility issues (AC56, AC68)
374.43_2 (7-June-2014)
- FIXED: NTFS disks couldn't be mounted (Paragon driver not
loading due to a kernel change) (AC56, AC68)
374.43 (6-June-2014)
- NEW: User-configurable refresh period to trigger a DDNS
update after a certain number of days.
- CHANGED: dnsmasq option 252 now defaults to an empty string,
to silence broken clients such as Win7.
Important: if you were previously using a customized
252 reply (to use with a valid wpad/pac file), you
will need to use a postconf script to change the
default config instead of appending your own
config.
If you use DNS-based WPAD setting, you will need
to remove the 252 option using postconf, as IE will
not query for the DNS entry if there is a 252
option through DHCP, even if it fails to connect to it.
- CHANGED: Updated miniupnpd to 1.8.20140523.
- CHANGED: Updated openssl to 1.0.0m.
- CHANGED: More backports from OpenSSL 1.0.2, improving SHA
performance on ARM routers.
- CHANGED: The JFFS2 partition is now disabled by default after
a factory default reset.
- FIXED: Media server page wouldn't let you enable the iTunes
server unless you also enabled DLNA (Asus bug)
- FIXED: Restricted guests still had access to the router (Asus
bug introduced in GPL 4887)
- FIXED: 6in4 traffic wasn't bypassing CTF if dualwan mode was
either disabled or set to failover mode (AC56/AC68)
- FIXED: Single character workgroups were rejected as invalid
(Asus bug)
- FIXED: Networks with SSIDs containing single quotes
would break the client list (Asus bug)
- FIXED: Traffic Monitor results are wrong on PPPoE connections
(Asus bug) (Patch by pinwing, additional debugging
by fantom1)
- FIXED: Crash if entering close to 64 MACs plus their names on
the MAC filter page.
374.42_2 (16-May-2014)
- FIXED: Time Machine support (AC56, AC68)
374.42 (9-May-2014)
- NEW: Merged with Asus's 374_5656 GPL.
- NEW: Added Comodo Secure DNS to supported DNSFilter services
- FIXED: Download2 folder wasn't selectable anymore on the
Media Server page.
- FIXED: Pass correct valid and preferred lifetime to radvd when
using DHCPv6-PD (Patch by pinwing)
- FIXED: IPv6 connectivity could be lost after 1-2 hours due
to the time shift caused by NTP at boot time
(Patch by pinwing)
- FIXED: Various IPv6 connectivity issues related to services
being (re)started at the wrong time, or twice.
(Patch by pinwing)
- FIXED: Build system would sometime try to use the local system's
header/libs - use a pkg-config wrapper to avoid this
issue (Patch by ppuryear)
- FIXED: Erratic 5G led blinking behaviour as the watchdog's software-
based blinking was constantly writing to the wireless chip's
registers for led control. (AC68)
- FIXED: LEDs weren't all turning back on when coming out of
Stealth Mode (AC56)
- CHANGED: Make the router use dnsmasq for internal name
resolution rather than directly using the WAN DNS.
- CHANGED: Upgraded OpenVPN to 2.3.4.
- CHANGED: Upgraded miniupnpd to 1.8.20140422 (PCP-related fixes)
374.41 (18-Apr-2014)
- NEW: Merged with Asus's 374_5047 GPL. Notable changes:
* Fixed RT-AC68U random reboots
* Additionnal security fixes
* Improved Media server, SMB and FTP webui
* minidlna and radvd updates
- NEW: PCP support (Port Control Protocol)
- NEW: Option to allow/deny FTP access from WAN. Default is to
reject WAN connections. The option can be found on the
USB Servers -> FTP Share
- NEW: Option to control web redirection while Internet is
down (configurable on the WAN page).
- CHANGED: Upgraded miniupnpd to 1.8.20140401.
- CHANGED: Disk idle exclusion now supports up to 9 disks.
- FIXED: WOL wasn't working (Asus bug in 4887/5047)
- FIXED: Replaced webui glue with permanent concrete. It won't
fall again.
- FIXED: Language dropdown not properly shown with 8-bit
characters.
- FIXED: Comcast's IPv6 network would flood the LAN with
neighbour solicitation packets, which should normally
not cross beyond their modem. There is now an ip6tables
rule to filter out those packets, preventing your log
from being spammed with table overflows. The filter is
is enabled by default and can be disabled by setting the
"ipv6_neighsol_drop" nvram setting to "0". (rule suggested
by diplomat7)
- FIXED: EMF wasn't properly configured after wireless was
restarted (patch from Vahur)
- FIXED: Router crashing when more than around 30 static routes
were entered
- FIXED: webui would die for some users when accessing the VPN Server
config page and there were connected OpenVPN clients
- FIXED: Added missing iptables-save on ARM platform (AC56, AC68)
- FIXED: nvram factory default reset would sometime fail on MIPS
devices (N16, N66, AC66) (Patch by ryzhov_al)
- FIXED: Under a certain situation the router could lose track of
whether an OpenVPN server/client instance was running or not.
This could result in the webui trying to restart it, and
returning an error message because it was already running.
- REMOVED: The Media server database location is no longer
configurable, as we've switched to Asus's new
automatic location selection.
- REMOVED: Removed the Run Cmd page as it was a security
risk. This is also needed to keep in line with
recent security fixes Asus applied to the
httpd backend to limit what external processes
it can run, otherwise any malicious page could
run arbitrary commands on your router if you
were currently logged on a separate tab.
374.40 (6-March-2014)
- KNOWN ISSUE: Some people are experiencing random reboots
with the RT-AC68U running firmwares based on recent Asus GPL.
If you are are affected, please revert to 374.40 alpha4 for now.
Asus are looking into the issue, which affects this model since
374_4422.
- FIXED: Asuswrt was calling wl_defaults() every time the
wifi was restarted, causing Regulation Mode to be
overwritten. Now we force it to h mode if the
router model and region requires DFS compliance
(same as Asus's code, except we won't enforce
it to off in other scenarios, and will only do
so if it was previously set to off).
- FIXED: Advanced wireless page broken on Internet Explorer, due
to missing Array.IndexOf() support in IE (Asus bug)
- FIXED: Incorrect model detection prevented CPU temperature
from being shown on the Sysinfo page on the "R" SKUs.
374.40 Beta 2 (5-March-2014)
- FIXED: Numerous buffer overruns in networkmap that would result
in crashes or empty/incomplete device list. Was often
visible on networks hosting a Windows Home Server machine.
(Asus bug)
- FIXED: Site survey was reporting 5G as being disabled on RT-N16.
- FIXED: Various issues related to the helper.sh script for postconf
- FIXED: The OpenVPN instance wasn't restarted if it was currently
stopped due to a syntax error in its config and you had
just corrected it.
- FIXED: Restarting the wireless service would stop emf/igs snooping
until they were manually restarted/recconfigured. (Asus bug)
- FIXED: Channels above 153 were missing on 5 GHz band if width
is set to 40 MHz (Asus bug)
- FIXED: reg_mode was being enforced to "h" (EU region) or "off"
(others) since GPL 4422. We now stick again to what's
set in the webui by the end user.
- FIXED: Allow LAN traffic while dualwan mode is set to lb (issue
caused by the default policy fix in beta 1)
374.40 Beta 1 (1-March-2014)
- NEW: Merged with Asus's 374_4561 GPL. Notable changes:
* Various security-related fixes
* Redesigned Parental Control webui
* Notification in case of insecure configuration
- NEW: Added OpenDNS Family Shield support to DNSFilter
- NEW: Added support for up to three user-defined servers to DNSFilter
- NEW: Added option to force DNSfilter clients to always use the DNS
provided to them by the router's DHCP server (which will be
the router itself if you didn't change it on the DHCP
webui page)
- NEW: Option to disable the DHCP6 Server (code contributed by
kdarbyshirebryant)
- CHANGED: The RT-N66U is now compiled with EM enabled
by default. That means there will no longer be a separate
experimental build for this.
- CHANGED: Updated dropbear to 2014.63
- CHANGED: New type of glue for the webui header
- CHANGED: Switched to a shorter version numbering scheme
- FIXED: RT-N16 firmware (missing files were obtained from
the new GPL release Asus made for this model)
- FIXED: Last24 page wasn't properly displaying the
Avg value (regression in 374.39)
- FIXED: Clients with a configured IPv6 DNS would bypass
DNSFilter. DNSFilter-enabled clients will now
be prevented from using IPv6 nameservers, forcing
them through the (IPv4-only) filtering nameserver
- FIXED: DNSFilter clients set to "None" would still be
forced through your WAN-configured nameservers,
preventing nameservers configured on the clients
from working. Now they will fully ignore the DNSFilter
settings.
- FIXED: The global DNSFilter would sometime not get properly
configured in the firewall.
- FIXED: When the firewall was disabled, the FORWARD chain
policy was still left to "DROP" - changed to "ACCEPT".
- FIXED: typo in SMB config ("use spne go") (Asus bug)
- FIXED: PPPoE with an MTU of 1500 requires the WAN interface
to have its MTU set at 1508 (patch by pinwing)
- FIXED: IPv6 Prefix Delegation issues (patch by pinwing)
- FIXED: MTU setting on IPv6 connections (patch by pinwing)
3.0.0.4.374.39 (31-Jan-2014)
This version isn't available for the RT-N16 as support for the
SDK5 platform is currently broken in the latest GPL sources.
- NEW: Merged with Asus 374_583 GPL. Notable changes:
* USB hub support
- NEW: DNS-based filtering. Under Parental Control there is
now a new tab called DNS Filter where you can enable
a DNS-based filtering service, and apply a specific
filter both globally and on a per-client basis. Supported
are: OpenDNS, Norton Connect Safe and YandexDNS.
- NEW: helper.sh script, to simplify creation of postconf
scripts. See the postconf section for details.
- CHANGED: Discontinued SDK5 builds for the RT-N66U. The new EM
builds resolved wifi range issues by running the SDK6
driver set in Engineering Mode (driver provided by Asus).
Look in the Experimental folder for the EM build - it will
eventually become the standard build for the N66U once
it gets sufficiently tested. You might need to do a
factory default reset after switching to an EM build,
for best results.
- CHANGED: Re-switched back to rp-pppoe 3.11 since nobody confirmed
that 3.10 worked better for them.
- CHANGED: Allow PPPoE MTU up to 1500, for ISPs that support RFC 4638.
- CHANGED: Additional webui performance improvement by caching CSS.
- FIXED: DHCPv6 client failing to start if the router username was
changed from "admin" (Asus bug) (patch from Saintdev)
- FIXED: DHCPv6 client failing to request an IP with some ISPs
such as Comcast (Asus bug) (patch from Saintdev)
- FIXED: SMB shares were accessible over WAN, bypassing Netfilter
(Asus bug) (AC56/AC68)
- FIXED: USB read speed would be limited by the QoS upstream
configuration (Asus bug) (AC56/AC68)
- FIXED: Resolution of local machines with domain appended would fail
when using a nameserver that does not return nxdomain errors
(such as OpenDNS) (Asus bug)
The new behaviour is configurable on the LAN-> DHCP page,
in case you run your own nameserver which is expected to
handle both local and remote domains. Default is to not
forward these (to allow OpenDNS to work properly).
- FIXED: OpenVPN Client page - changing the local IP wouldn't always be
properly saved.
- FIXED: Well-known services not properly applying settings on the
Network Services Filtering page (Asus bug)
- FIXED: Webui crash when importing an ovpn with invalid cert/keys
- FIXED: resolv.conf not reverted to its original content after an
OpenVPN client that gets DNS pushed to it would disconnect.
- FIXED: The average rates on the realtime traffic page would be
calculated based on the max number of samples (300) instead of
the currently collected number of samples (Asus bug)
- REMOVED: YandexDNS has been removed, since its functionality is now
provided by the new DNSFilter.
3.0.0.4.374.38_2 (17-Jan-2014):
- CHANGED: Improved webui responsiveness by instructing the browser
to cache images.
- CHANGED: Reverted minidlna to 374.37 code. While the latest code
brings some fixes, it seems to also break functionality
for a small number of users. Too many low-level changes
from the minidlna author to make it easy to debug.
- FIXED: Syntax error in DHCPv6 client config (Asus bug)
- FIXED: Domain field wasn't clearly identified on the webui
when DDNS set to Namecheap (Saintdev)
- FIXED: Missing carriage return in dnsmasq.conf when PPTP VPN
is enabled, causing LAN name resolution issues.
(Asus bug)
- FIXED: A few unescaped quotes in the French dict would break
some webui pages (such as the Wireless page).
(Asus bug)
- FIXED: OpenVPN server export would always export the first
server instance configuration.
- FIXED: Bogus "Config file is missing" error logged by pptpd when
it was starting (Asus bug)
- FIXED: "Advertise DNS" wasn't visible if the page was loaded and
"Respond to DNS" was already enabled.
3.0.0.4.374.38_1 (12-Jan-2014):
- FIXED: Tools -> Run Cmd page wasn't working (regression
in 374.38)
- FIXED: Router getting stuck on various webui changes due
to a broken precompiled emf module (AC56/AC68)
3.0.0.4.374.38 (11-Jan-2014):
This version isn't available for the RT-N16 or the SDK5 build
of the RT-N66U as support for the SDK5 platform is currently
broken. Please stick to 374.36 Beta 1 for the time being on
these two platforms.
Note that the RT-N66U did get a newer wifi driver, so give it a
try, as it might have resolved or at least improved on the wifi
range issues.
Remember to do a factory default reset if switching from SDK5 to
SDK6 builds! Keep a backup of your existing settings in case you
decide to revert back to an SDK5 build.
- NEW: Merged with 374_2078 GPL provided by Asus (From RT-N66U).
Notable changes:
* Updated SDK for MIPS devices - 6.30.163.2002 (r382208)
* PPPoE HW acceleration should be fixed by the new SDK
* Updated AiCloud closed source components (MIPS)
- CHANGED: Reverted Parental Control code to our fixed code,
as I see Asus is still making fixes to their own
code past version 2078.
- CHANGED: Updated AC56 and AC68U wifi driver and CTF to
January 3rd builds (provided by Asus)
- FIXED: emf/igs userspace tools were missing on ARM devices
- FIXED: USB devices missing on MIPS devices (regression
in 374.37)
- FIXED: Wifi stability on ARM devices (regression in
374.37)
3.0.0.4.374.37 (31-Dec-2013):
* This build was pulled due to numerous issues *
- NEW: Merged with Asus 374_501 GPL (from RT-AC68U).
Notable changes in this version:
* New SDK (wireless driver and CTF) for AC56/AC68
* dnsmasq updated to 2.68
* radvd updated to 1.9.5
* Improved IPv6 support
* Fixed Parental Control (A-M's own fix was replaced with
this new one for consistency)
* More details shown on Wireless Log page (their changes
were merged with our own changes)
- CHANGED: Dropbear default path will now include the locations
inside /opt
- CHANGED: Don't include a cert/key section in exported .ovpn if the
router has "User authentication only" enabled
- CHANGED: Display in which chain a given port forward rule is, on the
Port Forwarding page. Allows to distinguish manual forwards
from upnp forwards.
- CHANGED: The state of PPTP/L2TP client connections will be reported
on the VPN Status page.
- CHANGED: Removed the display of global OpenVPN statistics on the
VPN Status page.