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This is the official Wiki/documentation for Asuswrt-merlin, a custom firmware designed for Asus routers.

Note: As with any Wiki, this documentation is a constant work-in-progress. If you have the time and the willingness to help with this Wiki, please let me know and remember please use internal links before external (if available) as they might have updated documentation relevant to the current firmware.

About

1. About Asuswrt and Asuswrt-merlin
2. Features (External link)
3. Screenshots (External link)
4. Supported devices
5. Changelog (External link)
6. Installation
7. Reverting

Usage

1. User scripts
2. JFFS
3. Customizing configuration files
4. Custom DDNS support
5. SSHD
6. Scheduled tasks (Cron jobs)
7. Enhanced traffic monitoring
8. Adjustable TCP/IP connection tracking setting
9. Mounting remote CIFS shares
10. Disk Spindown when idle
11. NFS Exports
12. DNS Filter
13. Layer7-based Netfilter module

OpenVPN

1. About OpenVPN
2. Setting up OpenVPN
3. Generating certs with Easy-RSA
4. Policy-based routing
5. Policy-based routing - manual method

External software repositories

Entware

1. Setting up Entware (Optware alternative)
2. Setting up Entware (External link)
3. Installing Transmission through Entware
4. Lighttpd web server with PHP support through Entware
5. Installing RTorrent through Entware (External link)
6. Installing Deluge through Entware
7. Webcam video surveillance Entware (External link)

Optware

1. Setting up Optware
2. Setting up New Generation Optware (External link)
3. Installing Transmission through Optware
4. Cherokee Web Server (External link)
5. PyLoad Download Manager through Optware (External link)
6. Webcam video surveillance Optware (External link)

Chroot Debian

1. Plex Media Server on Arm Routers (External link)
2. Minidlna Upnp Media Server through debian (link list)

Development

1. Download the latest source code from GitHub
2. Compile from source using Ubuntu
3. Compile from source using Linux Mint
4. Compiling from source using a Debian-based Linux Distribution
5. Apply patches to source files

Networking HowTo and Guides

1. Iptables tricks and tips
2. How to use Adblock Plus filter subscriptions to provide advertisement filtering to devices
3. Secure DNS queries using DNSCrypt
4. Setting up an IPv6 tunnel through Hurricane Electric
5. How to dedicate SSID for VPN and SSID for regular ISP using OpenVPN
6. How to use ipset to block connections
7. Link Aggregation Setup
8. Access modem Web UI on WAN port (no script)
9. Enforce the use of Google Safesearch on your LAN
10. How to have dedicated DHCP options bind to a specific SSID?
11. Custom domains with dnsmasq
12. How to use Adblock using Pixelserv
13. How to block scanners, bots, malware, ransomware

Misc HowTo and Guides

1. Scheduled Reboot
2. Email notification from your router
3. WOL Script Wake Up Your Webserver On Internet Traffic
4. Scheduled LED control
5. How to make a NTFS usb hdd running more stable as media server, by ChrisR
6. Network Image Scanning With Sane
7. Delay start of minidlna to wait for the USB disk mount
8. Setting-up-FreeRadius2-through-Entware
9. User NVRAM Save/Restore
10. Transfer (sync) a backup to a remote location using Rsync through a SSH tunnel between 2 Asus routers
11. Setting a random password for guest wifi
12. Tinc VPN on AsusWRT-Merlin (External Link)
13. LUKS Encrypted USB Drive HOWTO
14. Disk Check at Boot
15. Minidlna: Common Issues & Solutions
16. pyTivo: How-To Guide
17. Setting up a NTP Server for your LAN

Reference:

1. FAQ
2. Credits
3. Contact
4. Disclaimer
5. Privacy