Asuswrt-Merlin - custom firmware for Asus routers

[RMerlin]

about:
This is a customized version of Asuswrt, the firmware developed and used by Asus on many of their routers.

Official support:
RT-N16
RT-N66U / RT-N66R
RT-AC66U / RT-AC66R

The primary goals of this project are to fix bugs, add a few basic features and tweaks to the original firmware. This firmware will try to remain as close as possible to the original firmware. If you are looking for a slew of advanced features, then this project is not for you. Look at TomatoUSB or DD-WRT, two excellent products that might suit your needs better.

If however you prefer something as close as possible to the manufacturer's firmware, then this is for you

Latest stable release: 3.0.0.4.270.26
Latest Beta release:3.0.0.4.354.29 Beta 1

Features:

Asuswrt-merlin provides the following changes over the original firmware:

System:

• Various bugfixes (like the crash on VPN/NAT Loopback access of LAN devices)
• Persistent JFFS partition
• User scripts that run on specific events
• Cron jobs
• Customized config files for 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)

Disk sharing:

• Optionally use shorter share names (folder name only)
• Disk spindown after user-configurable inactivity timeout
• NFS sharing (through webui)

Networking:

• Act 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
• User-defined options for WAN DHCP queries (required by some ISPs)
• Improved NAT loopback (based on code from phuzi0n from the DD-WRT forums)
• Dual WAN support (separate experimental build)
• OpenVPN client and server, based on code originally written by Keith Moyer for Tomato and reused with his permission. (RT-N66U, RT-AC66U)
• Option to control Spanning-Tree Protocol support.
• Netfilter ipset module, for efficient blacklist implementation
• Wireless site survey

Web interface:

• Optionally save traffic stats to disk (USB or JFFS partition)
• Enhanced traffic monitoring: added monthly, as well as per IP monitoring
• Display active/tracked network connections
• Name field on the DHCP reservation list and Wireless ACL list
• System info summary page
• Wireless client IP, hostname, rate and rssi on the Wireless Log page
• Wifi icon reports the state of both radios
• Display the Ethernet port states
• The various MAC/IP selection pulldowns will also display hostnames when possible instead of just NetBIOS names

Hope you folks like it

[RMerlin]

Important Links:

Official website: http://www.lostrealm.ca/asuswrt-merlin

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/asuswrt-merlin/

Changelog: http://www.lostrealm.ca/asuswrt-merlin/changelog.txt

Source code: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin

Wiki: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RMerlinDev