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The ASUS GT-BE98 Pro, RT-AX86U_Pro and a few others ASUS models have had this new release available to them an so far no real issues around AiMesh stability has been reported.
I appreciate early days and changelog reads more around Security improvements (certs, buffer handling and data processing workflows) etc.
FWIW, I did hear that malware was effecting certain ASUS routers, hence these quick Firmware releases.
Always nice to have a volunteer to try first
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Well I updated to 3.0.0.4.388_24684 (v1 flavour) about 8 hours ago. The only issue I had was with some of my 2.4G devices not reconnecting, so I just turned off the 2.4G radio for a few seconds, turned it back on and everything came back up. I can’t report on any node issues because mine are all hard wired.
Now let’s see if it holds up.
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Congrats on being the first Forum member to try this new firmware release 3.0.0.4.388_24684 (v1).
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ASUS ZenWiFi XT8 Firmware version 3.0.0.4.388_24684
1. Strengthened input validation and data processing workflows to further protect information security.
2. Enhanced AiCloud password protection mechanisms, safeguarding against unauthorized access attempts.
3. Enhanced device security through improved buffer handling in connection features.
4. Refined data handling processes, ensuring secure and accurate information management.
5. Enhanced file access control mechanisms, promoting a more secure operating environment.
6. Strengthened certificate protection, providing enhanced data security.I have been testing this for nearly 24 hours. Seems stable for my use case on 160MHz wireless backhaul.
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Well I updated to 3.0.0.4.388_24684 (v1 flavour) about 8 hours ago. The only issue I had was with some of my 2.4G devices not reconnecting, so I just turned off the 2.4G radio for a few seconds, turned it back on and everything came back up. I can’t report on any node issues because mine are all hard wired.
Now let’s see if it holds up.
It’s been over 2 days and nothing untoward. It looks like a stable update for me.
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Great news so far
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Looks like the asd Tainted (“asd” daemon crashed) and then restarts and the “restart_firewall” is called by “asd” after it restarts.
(The ASD from a Linux perspective stands for ‘anything-sync-daemon’ I believe and handles temp files and writing them to storage etc.)
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As a follow on and to brake the following down a little ..
CPU: 1 PID: 1719 Comm: asd Tainted: P O 4.1.52 #1.- CPU: = Central processing Unit
- 1 PID = Uniquely identifier for an active process (LINUX)
- 1719 Comm = Shared memory channel
- asd Tainted = ‘anything-sync-daemon’ is in an unsupported state because it cannot be guaranteed to function correctly.
- P O 4.1.52 #1 = I do not know but assume memory or space allocation etc
Note: anything-sync-daemon (asd) is a tiny pseudo-daemon designed to manage user defined dirs in tmpfs and to periodically sync back to the physical disc (HDD/SSD).
Q. Have you any third party storage devices plugged in if not then maybe just a bug in the underlying code ?
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Much thanks to all that post in this forum. In the past 2 years since owning 3 of these ASUS units this forum has been by far the most helpful.
Background intro: My setup is quantity 3 of these Zenwifi AX units. All are only in AP mode. I purchased them to leverage the 3rd band for a high speed bridge for a few wired devices at different points in the home where I did not have wired Ethernet. It is only since the last two firmware updates that I could go a complete week without having to reboot the system as the 3rd band would drop leaving the mesh running only on the 2.5 slow band (yellow line). Indeed it was so frustrating that I finally decided to spend the money to install Ethernet to enable Ethernet backhaul between the 3 units (which I understand was also troublesome until the past few updates). My general goal is stability sufficient to allow for only monthly reboots. Prior to this most recent update I have not been able to get past a week. Finally I am now at ten days and cautiously optimistic.
Additional info on this latest release: I also have seen “tainted” entries in my log since the last update, but they were for the http daemon. Also on the first reboot after this most recent update while the Ethernet backhaul came up fine and was showing traffic one of the mesh satellite units had an entry in the wifi log as being connected via the 2.5 even though it was on Ethernet backhaul. I rebooted the system again and that issue cleared.
Prior to buying this ASUS system I had three Apple AirPort Extreme units in a different home that ran flawlessly in AP only mode between monthly reboots. Hopefully ASUS will get us to that point while this hardware generation remain supported :-)
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Welcome, like many others glad you are enjoying the journey with your ASUS ZenWiFi XT8’s
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I just got the notification of an update to ” 3.0.0.4.388_24688-gf94212b”. I bit the bullet, now lets see.
Anyway, I thought they were going to include monthly reboots in the next update?
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ASUS ZenWiFi XT8 Firmware version 3.0.0.4.388_24688 update is a security update after a recent malware problem all ASUS routers have had.
ASUS have said that monthly reboot feature is now included in their SW roadmap, this could in theory take several months before we see it in end user devices unfortunately.
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