AsusWrt-Merlin Firmware 3.0.0.4.354.29 Beta 1 for RT-N16

The AsusWrt-Merlin firmware was developed with the primary goal of boosting the original ASUS firmware, fix bugs and also add new improvements. This package includes a customized firmware targeted at ASUS routers that brings various changes without modifying the interface of the original firmware.

Changelog:

System:
- Based on the 3.0.0.4.354 source release from Asus
- Various bugfixes (like the crash on VPN/NAT Loopback access of LAN devices)
- Some components were updated to their latest versions, for improved stability and security
- 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:

- Enable/disable the use of shorter share names
- Disk spindown after user-configurable inactivity timeout
- NFS sharing (through webui)

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
- User-defined options for WAN DHCP queries (required by some ISPs)
- Improved NAT loopback (based on code from phuzi0n from the DD-WRT forums)
- 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

Web interface:

- Improved client list, with DHCP hostnames
- 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
- Wireless site survey

Installation Notes:

- This custom firmware can be applied like any regular update.
- You should not need to reset to factory defaults.
- You can revert back to an original ASUS firmware at any time.
- Do not load a saved copy of your settings.