ASUSWRT-Merlin Notes Revision as of Monday, 21 December 2015 at 02:30 UTC
Installation
- 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 via GUI. All was well.
Enabled manual assignment on “LAN” → “DHCP Server” and added devices and
names. This wasn’t working before. Yay.
Dnsmasq
SSHed into router, created these files:
 /jffs/configs/dnsmasq.conf.add
 /jffs/configs/hosts.dnsmasq
Added this to dnsmasq.conf.add
:
 addn-hosts=/jffs/configs/hosts.dnsmasq
And whatever else to the hosts file. Restarted the service:
 ps | grep dnsmasq
 kill -9Â
 dnsmasq --log-async