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Perhaps they felt that some of the security flaws that have been corrected were critical enough that they did not want people using firmware that still contained the flaws? Maybe their legal team was involved???

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I run GNUton firmware on my primary router, and Asus latest on my aimesh node.

I have a scheduled reboot set for 6am Sunday mornings, just to clear thing out and avoid memory leak issues etc… About 45 minutes after reboot I and seeing this in the log. Anything to worry about?

 

Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: CPU: 1 PID: 1719 Comm: asd Tainted: P O 4.1.52 #1
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: Hardware name: Generic DT based system
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: task: d22b7c00 ti: d3672000 task.ti: d3672000
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: PC is at 0xb6906fbc
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: LR is at 0xb6907e14
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: pc : [<b6906fbc>] lr : [<b6907e14>] psr: 20010010
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: sp : be885340 ip : b691b150 fp : 00000000
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: r10: b690a458 r9 : b690a2d4 r8 : 00000000
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: r7 : 01763b50 r6 : be885360 r5 : 017639d0 r4 : 01769f48
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: r3 : 0000676f r2 : b6500928 r1 : 00000400 r0 : 00000000
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 ISA ARM Segment user
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: Control: 10c5387d Table: 1370804a DAC: 00000015
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: CPU: 1 PID: 1719 Comm: asd Tainted: P O 4.1.52 #1
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: Hardware name: Generic DT based system
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: [<c0026f20>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0022cf8>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: [<c0022cf8>] (show_stack) from [<c04d329c>] (dump_stack+0x8c/0xa0)
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: [<c04d329c>] (dump_stack) from [<c003abc8>] (get_signal+0x490/0x558)
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: [<c003abc8>] (get_signal) from [<c0022290>] (do_signal+0xc8/0x3ac)
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: [<c0022290>] (do_signal) from [<c0022718>] (do_work_pending+0x94/0xa4)
Nov 17 06:45:24 kernel: [<c0022718>] (do_work_pending) from [<c001f58c>] (work_pending+0xc/0x20)
Nov 17 06:45:29 rc_service: service 12078:notify_rc restart_firewall

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Do the changes in the newly released BIOS appear to have any impact on actual Mesh or connectivity or is it all related to security for connecting TO the router? I know that’s important as well, but wondering if there are any “under the hood” changes that would impact stability or wifi usage etc.

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Can anyone help me understand what port this is referring to? Not sure if it is an actual issue, but trying to understand what this message means:

Nov 4 10:13:06 kernel: eth2 (Ext switch port: 1) (Logical Port: 9) (phyId: 1) Link DOWN.
Nov 4 10:13:08 kernel: eth2: sysport_tm port shaper set to 999000 kbps, 35000 mbs (phy speed 1000000 kbps)
Nov 4 10:13:08 kernel: eth2 (Ext switch port: 1) (Logical Port: 9) (phyId: 1) Link Up at 1000 mbps full duplex
Nov 4 10:13:10 kernel: eth2 (Ext switch port: 1) (Logical Port: 9) (phyId: 1) Link DOWN.
Nov 4 10:13:12 kernel: eth2: sysport_tm port shaper set to 999000 kbps, 35000 mbs (phy speed 1000000 kbps)
Nov 4 10:13:12 kernel: eth2 (Ext switch port: 1) (Logical Port: 9) (phyId: 1) Link Up at 1000 mbps full duplex

 

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177 is available in US. Things have been stable for 7 hours now. Time will tell.

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So my question of the day… I have been having issues with my Asus XT8 randomly rebooting. Sometimes it goes 3 days between, sometimes only a couple of hours… Nothing showing in the logs that points to what the issue was. Frustrating as can be since no rhyme or reason and I work from home and we stream all TV stuff…

I’ve decided to do a hard reset following the WPS button approach. I left all the defaults but did the following:
1) Set my SSID to my existing one with same password so all my devices would reconnect
2) Set my wifi 2.4 channel to 11, as that is best in my area and also locked it at 20mhz width
3) Set my wifi 5 channel to 48, and kept 20/40/80 channel width
4) Using wireless backhaul on wifi 5-2 with 160 bandwidth and locked to channel 177

Assuming things stay smooth and I don’t get reboots (which to me would indicate a hardware issue at this point – purchased in March 2022 v1 units)… Are there any SUGGESTED changes to other settings to improve “anything” or just leave things set as is? I honestly don’t remember what I had tweaked over time and have bounced back and forth between official ASUS firmware and Gnuton ones with dirty upgrades so the WPS reset seemed like a good idea to rule other things out…

Now…. If the hardware is bad – what’s the consensus recommendation on reasonably priced 2 node Mesh these days? Asus XT9, ET9? Or something like the TP-Link Deco EX75 or EX75-Pro?

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Is there a way to schedule a MONTHLY reboot vs the weekly that I see in the GUI?

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Well, here goes nothing…. Upgrading.

 

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. maggiemay Said:

Does the XT8 support WiFi 6e clients?

I’m about to replace my laptop and all the latest models I’m looking at have WiFi 6e connectivity.  Both me and the laptop are old :-) and I am not tech savvy.

Many thanks!

Wifi 6E is backward compatible with routers that support older standards, but will only connect at the maximum rate supported by the router. So while XT8 doesn’t support Wifi-6E, it does support Wifi-6, so would connect using that standard. The laptop would be able to connect using Wifi-6E in the future if you were to upgrade the router, but there is very little reason at this time to worry about that. In fact, Wifi-7 devices are hitting the market now (usually at a pretty high price).

I wouldn’t be concerned at all.

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. dodgydrains Said:

I dirty flashed over FW 388_24609 without any issues with an uptime of around 24 hours.

Same here, but just did it so about 24 minutes of up time. Seems like primarily a security vulnerability fix vs performance issues.

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I’m in the US and the US site does not show the new BIOS yet but I downloaded it from the link provided and did a dirty upgrade. So far, so good. Also got the new Privacy and EULA acceptance pages, but only 1 time.

System seems stable and all my node and all devices reconnected fine.

 

May have spoken too soon. Upgraded this morning around 9:00am and just had my primary Mesh unit reboot itself at 12:30pm. I saved off the detailed crash log from the System Log.

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I’m in the US and the US site does not show the new BIOS yet but I downloaded it from the link provided and did a dirty upgrade. So far, so good. Also got the new Privacy and EULA acceptance pages, but only 1 time.

System seems stable and all my node and all devices reconnected fine.

 

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On dodgydrains said

Is this device now EOL?  No updates from Asus for 7 months now.

I thought I remembered someone posting that they were going to release an update in December for some type of security flaw?

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Interestingly enough this new version is not showing on the Asus website, at least when I check. Last posted on website is still 22525.

 

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What the heck… Dirty upgrade done. Let’s see how it goes.

 

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