ASUSWRT-Merlin NotesRevisionas of Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 19:56 UTC

Downloaded the original firmware just in
case. Then
logged into router and backed up config in “Administration” →
“Restore/Save/Upload Setting”.

Got the enhanced firmware via this
page (scroll to the bottom).
Verified MD5.

Updated with new firmware. Rebooted. All was well.

Enabled manual assignment on “LAN” → “DHCP Server” and added devices and
names. This wasn’t working before. Yay.

DNSMasq

Edit /etc/hosts.dnsmasq to add entries. The router itself does this
when you manually assign IPs and device names.
This
was a nice, quick guide to DNSMasq.

Made sure to restart the service by SSH-ing into the router.

 ps | grep dnsmasq
 kill -9 
 dnsmasq --log-async

Bad part: Adding any new additional device names via the web interface
resets that file :( Need to find a workaround.

Category: Nikhil’s Notes
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