Posted: Sun May 11, 2025 6:31 Post subject: New Build - 05/11/2025 - r61202
Welcome to Atheros r61202 beta release thread for reporting, feedback to developers and community benefit.
Please do not flash builds until installation is understood, risks involved and device specificrecovery methods.
Avoid discussions, create threads for questions, general problems or use search; this thread is not for support.
List router model & version or revision, operating & wireless modes & exact filename/firmware image flashed.
CLI Flash: 'cd /tmp' then 'wget {file URL}' (httponly) or 'curl -O {file URL}' (http, https, ftp) 'write {file} linux' then 'reboot'.
Issues, observations, and/or workarounds reported:
• WebUI: Clear history or use a portable. Temporary cache bypass: Ctrl+F5, Cmd+Shift+R or new private window/incognito.
• Please report findings with steps needed to reproduce, configuration, clients, output, logs and important information below!
Important:
• Detail issues & relevant configs, logs: syslog klog 'dmesg' 'cat /tmp/var/log/messages' nvram set console_debug=1, serial.
• Firewall NAT: 'iptables -vnL' 'iptables -t nat -vnL' 'iptables -t mangle -vnL' & 'cat /tmp/.ipt'. Debug Analyze: stracetcpdump.
• Gremlins: reboot. cold boot. Reset & reconfigure not restore backup. Search Trac & discuss in forum before opening tickets.
• Include operating & wireless modes (e.g. Gateway, Router, AP, SB, WDS, Mesh) and applicable configurations to reproduce.
Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 6877 Location: UK, London, just across the river..
Posted: Sun May 11, 2025 8:24 Post subject:
Router Model Netgear R7800
Firmware Version DD-WRT v3.0-r61202 std (05/11/25)
Kernel Version Linux 6.1.138-rt28 #575 SMP Sun May 11 01:20:36 +07 2025 armv7l
update: CLI r61179> r61202
reset: NO
mode: Gateway/DNScrypt-proxyV2 via Entware, AD-Block (via DNSmasq script & DNScrypt list),IPset Firewall,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x2VLAN on their own bridges with dhcpd and tag,VPN client(PBR),40 HT 2.4Ghz only(Vanilla), Disable 121
status: Operational 1h+
errors: There was no CLI output during the flash procedure(flashed x2 units)...
Thanks BS and Team !
root@R7800DGc2:/tmp# curl -O https://download1.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/betas/2025/05-11-2025-r61202/netgear-r7800/dd-wrt-webupgrade.bin
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 29.5M 100 29.5M 0 0 2161k 0 0:00:13 0:00:13 --:--:-- 2234k
root@R7800DGc2:/tmp# /opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung stop
Checking dnscrypt-proxy... alive.
Shutting down dnscrypt-proxy... done.
root@R7800DGc2:/tmp# umount /opt -l
root@R7800DGc2:/tmp# write dd-wrt-webupgrade.bin linux &
root@R7800DGc2:/tmp#
[1]+ Done write dd-wrt-webupgrade.bin linux
Router Model Netgear XR500
Firmware Version DD-WRT v3.0-r61202 std (05/11/25)
Kernel Version Linux 6.1.138-rt28 #575 SMP Sun May 11 01:20:36 +07 2025 armv7l
update: CLI r61179> r61202
reset: NO
mode: Gateway/DoT via SmartDNS, AD-Block(via DNSmasq script),IPset Firewall,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x2VLAN on their own bridges, with dhcpd and tag,VPN client(PBR),40 HT 2.4Ghz only(Vanilla), Disable 121
status: Operational 1h+
errors: There was no problem with CLI output during the flash procedure...not like R7800...
Thanks BS and Team ! _________________ Atheros
TP-Link WR740Nv1 ---DD-WRT 58184 WAP
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -DD-WRT 61745 Gateway/DoT,Forced DNS,Ad-Block,Firewall,x4VLAN,VPN
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -Gargoyle OS 1.15.x AP,DNS,QoS,Quotas
Qualcomm-Atheros
Netgear XR500 --DD-WRT 61824 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Netgear R7800 --DD-WRT 61824 Gateway/DNSCryptv2,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x3VLAN,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 61711 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Dynalink DL-WRX36-DDWRT 61745
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 61745 Gateway/DNScrypt-proxy2/AD-Block,IPset Firewall,Forced DNS,x4VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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Stubby DNS over TLS I DNSCrypt v2 by mac913
Router/Version: R7800
File/Kernel: Linux 6.1.138-rt28 #575 SMP Sun May 11 01:20:36 +07 2025 armv7l
Previous/Reset: r61179 / no
Mode/Status: WAP / working
Services Used: VLAN-Trunk, SSH ed25519,WiFi 2,4Ghz + 5Ghz AP's + VAP's Vanilla,USB
Issues/Errors: VLAN Filtering is still buggy settings are not applied correctly
(please do not try to apply the settings, you will lock yourself out, additional GUI and CLI settings are needed which i do not show and the settings must be made in a precise sequence)
Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 793 Location: Helsinki, Finland / nr. Alkmaar, Netherlands
Posted: Sun May 11, 2025 17:46 Post subject:
Router model R7800
Upgraded from build 60771 to 61202 a little while ago.
Couldn't access the GUI at first.
After a reboot I saw a GUI page for a few seconds.
Everything else the router is supposed to do, seemed to work as usual, like accessing web pages from wan. Great.
Local SSH to the router also worked like I have had it set up, key-based access, port changed from default, so restarting the HTTP-daemon seemed like a smart thing to try. Had to look up the command, which is from a distant past:
service httpd restart.
After each and every GUI page reload or change, the httpd needs to be restarted for the page to load. Other than that, everything I tried and look up in the GUI seemed OK.
Because of a warning not to save any changes, I didn't do any tests.
As @Alozaros already mentioned there is no record in the syslog of the firmware being flashed as would be normal (I have a rsylog server running).
No signs of the httpd crashing in the log, but the restarts are logged OK.
The httpd crashing at every use of the GUI is bad, but I'm happy the router can be used this way and keep up with the recent changes in 'networking'.
Not too bad compared to my previous attempts to flash newer builds, which invariably resulted in a loss of WAN access.
Because of a warning not to save any changes, I didn't do any tests.
I believe the warning above only applies to vlan filtering. _________________ - Linksys EA8500: I-Gateway, WAP/VAP 5ghz only. Features: VLANs, Samba, WG, Entware - r60xxx
- Linksys EA8500: 802.11s Secondary w/VLAN Trunk over 5ghz - r60xxx
- Linksys MX4300: 802.11s Primary w/VLAN Trunk over 5ghz. 2.4ghz WAP/VAP only - r60xxx
- Linksys MX4300: (WAP/VAP (7)) Multiple VLANs over single trunk port. Entware/Samba r60xxx
- Linksys MR7350: WDS Station for extended Ethernet r60xxx
- Linksys MR7500, MX8500: None in production. Just testing. r60xxx
- OSes: Fedora 40, 10 RPis (2,3,4,5), 23 ESP8266s: Straight from Amiga to Linux in '95, never having owned a Windows PC.
- Forum member #248
Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 6877 Location: UK, London, just across the river..
Posted: Sun May 11, 2025 18:40 Post subject:
ArjenR49 wrote:
Had to look up the command, which is from a distant past:
service httpd restart.
After each and every GUI page reload or change, the httpd needs to be restarted for the page to load. Other than that, everything I tried and look up in the GUI seemed OK.
The httpd crashing at every use of the GUI is bad, but I'm happy the router can be used this way and keep up with the recent changes in 'networking'.
Not too bad compared to my previous attempts to flash newer builds, which invariably resulted in a loss of WAN access.
Let's see how this build continues to run ...
No idea what you are doing...I didn't have any GUI crashes..im always using pale-moon browser in private mode...
I did play with vlan's today and all went well...kind of...didn't manage to lock myself out...
but something is odd definitely...also read tons of DSA documentation and I'm still learning...its a try and err in my case... it would be good when things are 100% working...and ive never needed a vlians in terms of tag'ing to segment the traffic...for a single port...in my case i just need a ports that do not communicate with each other.... _________________ Atheros
TP-Link WR740Nv1 ---DD-WRT 58184 WAP
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -DD-WRT 61745 Gateway/DoT,Forced DNS,Ad-Block,Firewall,x4VLAN,VPN
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -Gargoyle OS 1.15.x AP,DNS,QoS,Quotas
Qualcomm-Atheros
Netgear XR500 --DD-WRT 61824 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Netgear R7800 --DD-WRT 61824 Gateway/DNSCryptv2,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x3VLAN,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 61711 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Dynalink DL-WRX36-DDWRT 61745
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 61745 Gateway/DNScrypt-proxy2/AD-Block,IPset Firewall,Forced DNS,x4VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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Stubby DNS over TLS I DNSCrypt v2 by mac913
Router/Version: Linksys EA8500
File/Kernel: dd-wrt-webflash-ea8500-r61202.bin
Previous/Reset: Mostly alpha releases
Mode/Status: Testing
Issues/Errors: Working VERY well. Up 10 hrs
- Flashing this build also did not show up in the live serial console. No biggie as it was successful.
- VLANs working with Vlan Tagging enabled (do not enable trunking as it will lock you out of all ports unless configured correctly). See below.
- If using untagged VLAN1, it must be at the bottom of the vlan filters list, at least for MY configuration, to work correctly. This is only necessary to allow a single Ethernet connection to still access the router on the trunk port.
Notice the only lan port visable is lan1. You MUST add vlan1 to ALL lan ports untagged with PVID BEFORE you enable trunking. Otherwise, you WILL BE LOCKED OUT.
Summary:
- Do not enable Trunking on the bridge unless you configure all the LANs (lan1-4) for vlan1 with PVID first under the vlan filtering section. This is guaranteed to lock you out otherwise.
- If you have real vlans (excluding vlan1) they must be added to the vlan filtering area at the top, then all the other vlan1 ports below that. It will not work otherwise. Note: Looks like this may be fixed in the next release. EDIT: This has indeed been fixed in the next release.
- You can still obtain a proper trunk port with Trunking disabled on the bridge. This allows for a bit simpler configuration under vlan filtering. ie. You don't need to assign vlan1 w/PVID to each lan port as it's automatic.
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_________________ - Linksys EA8500: I-Gateway, WAP/VAP 5ghz only. Features: VLANs, Samba, WG, Entware - r60xxx
- Linksys EA8500: 802.11s Secondary w/VLAN Trunk over 5ghz - r60xxx
- Linksys MX4300: 802.11s Primary w/VLAN Trunk over 5ghz. 2.4ghz WAP/VAP only - r60xxx
- Linksys MX4300: (WAP/VAP (7)) Multiple VLANs over single trunk port. Entware/Samba r60xxx
- Linksys MR7350: WDS Station for extended Ethernet r60xxx
- Linksys MR7500, MX8500: None in production. Just testing. r60xxx
- OSes: Fedora 40, 10 RPis (2,3,4,5), 23 ESP8266s: Straight from Amiga to Linux in '95, never having owned a Windows PC.
- Forum member #248
Last edited by lexridge on Mon May 12, 2025 5:49; edited 1 time in total
Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 793 Location: Helsinki, Finland / nr. Alkmaar, Netherlands
Posted: Sun May 11, 2025 19:43 Post subject:
Alozaros wrote:
No idea what you are doing...I didn't have any GUI crashes..im always using pale-moon browser in private mode...
So I switched from Chromium to Epiphany and that immediately did away with the GUI crashes. Amazing, how bad these browsers can be(have).
Thanks for repeating this much heard advice.
I haven't had these type of problems before at all. I was using Chromium, because it has 'Save WE page', saving GUI pages as single HTML files, which is good for documentation. Firefox for other browsing.
Epiphany is now the third internet browser open on my workstation. I should try to clean out Chromium to make it work again, because saving GUI settings as HTML pages is very helpful.
I have heard about Pale Moon, but it's not in the Linux Mint software repositories. Perhaps from an independent source.
Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 793 Location: Helsinki, Finland / nr. Alkmaar, Netherlands
Posted: Sun May 11, 2025 20:40 Post subject:
ArjenR49 wrote:
So I switched from Chromium to Epiphany and that immediately did away with the GUI crashes. Amazing, how bad these browsers can be(have).
It was also very odd to notice that even though I rebooted the router from the GUI in Chromium several times, the uptime info was not reset to 0. Only when I rebooted the router from the SSH session, did the router apparently really start up again and the uptime was reset.
I have deleted all kinds of cached info that Chromium offers to delete, but it didn't seem to help. Only closing the GUI page in Chromium allowed Epiphany to have stable interaction with the router.
Router/Version: R7800
File/Kernel: Linux 6.1.138-rt28 #575 SMP Sun May 11 01:20:36 +07 2025 armv7l
Previous/Reset: r61179 / no
Mode/Status: WAP / working
Services Used: VLAN-Trunk, SSH ed25519,WiFi 2,4Ghz + 5Ghz AP's + VAP's Vanilla,USB
Issues/Errors: VLAN Filtering is still buggy settings are not applied correctly
fixed in build r61225
(and I meant you should not try out my settings)
This will almost certainly lock you out. _________________ Quickstart guides:
Chrome (Versie 136.0.7103.92 (Officiële build) (64-bits)) was behaving horribly with dd-wrt gui pages after upgrading to 61201. Crashing httpd and so slow, that stuff on a Gui page that would normally be hidden was shown for some time before it would disappear again. Action buttons (+) or (-) had also become almost invisible.
Cleaning history, rebooting etc. was no help... After trying out Epiphany, which was OK and a relief, I decided to try Firefox (138.0.1 (64-bits)) again, from which I had moved to Chrome some time ago. This time FF behaved very well. Then I finally downloaded Palemoon and found my way around in setting it up on Linux/LMDE.
As long as Chrome doesn't have any dd-wrt GUI page open, gui pages are fine and dandy in both FF and Palemoon. Exit Chrome ...
I would never have believed a common browser can be so nasty even though I've read the warnings now and then. Nothing this strange ever happened before. There's no telling what triggered it all of a sudden.
Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 6877 Location: UK, London, just across the river..
Posted: Mon May 12, 2025 14:54 Post subject:
ArjenR49 Its been known, for a long time that, Chromium based browsers are not 'Ideal' for
DDWRT GUI...and its have been discussed many, many times which browsers are advised..
FFx portable, Pale-moon and ect...non-chromium based browsers...
In fact, to me... Chrome is not good browser at all...for anything... except if you are web designer and want to check compatibility of your page or similar... In terms of security I've abandoned Chrome 15 years ago.. ~ Im mostly FFx (with hardening) user but,
I have a spare browser for fun (Opera GX)..
anyway new build came out...61238 and probb more will follow lots of DSA WIP _________________ Atheros
TP-Link WR740Nv1 ---DD-WRT 58184 WAP
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -DD-WRT 61745 Gateway/DoT,Forced DNS,Ad-Block,Firewall,x4VLAN,VPN
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -Gargoyle OS 1.15.x AP,DNS,QoS,Quotas
Qualcomm-Atheros
Netgear XR500 --DD-WRT 61824 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Netgear R7800 --DD-WRT 61824 Gateway/DNSCryptv2,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x3VLAN,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 61711 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Dynalink DL-WRX36-DDWRT 61745
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 61745 Gateway/DNScrypt-proxy2/AD-Block,IPset Firewall,Forced DNS,x4VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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Stubby DNS over TLS I DNSCrypt v2 by mac913
Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 7726 Location: Dresden, Germany
Posted: Mon May 12, 2025 17:28 Post subject:
Alozaros wrote:
ArjenR49 Its been known, for a long time that, Chromium based browsers are not 'Ideal' for
DDWRT GUI...and its have been discussed many, many times which browsers are advised..
FFx portable, Pale-moon and ect...non-chromium based browsers...
In fact, to me... Chrome is not good browser at all...for anything... except if you are web designer and want to check compatibility of your page or similar... In terms of security I've abandoned Chrome 15 years ago.. ~ Im mostly FFx (with hardening) user but,
I have a spare browser for fun (Opera GX)..
anyway new build came out...61238 and probb more will follow lots of DSA WIP
but i use chrome without issues? my main problems are with slowness (depends on the device) with chrome are often https related. could that be a issue? _________________ "So you tried to use the computer and it started smoking? Sounds like a Mac to me.." - Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_5YDRWqGE&t=60s
Joined: 05 Oct 2008 Posts: 793 Location: Helsinki, Finland / nr. Alkmaar, Netherlands
Posted: Mon May 12, 2025 20:13 Post subject:
BrainSlayer wrote:
but i use chrome without issues? my main problems are with slowness (depends on the device) with chrome are often https related. could that be a issue?
I have used Chrome for months with dd-wrt gui and had no problems with crashing httpd or slowness in loading pages. The reason why I months ago moved from FF to Chrome was because of the Save WE Page extension, which is very good for documenting dd-wrt settings in a single html file for each tab.
Then suddenly after the upgrade of my R7800 from 60771 to 61201 a day or so ago it was like an earthquake had happened. httpd crashing at just about every move in the GUI and after restarting httpd some GUI pages showed stuff that shouldn't be there because the corresponding feature was in the disabled state. Deleting cached browser info made no difference.
My workstation is an Intel NUC 10i5 with 16 GB of RAM running LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition, Faye) and wired ethernet connection to the router. Not the latest, but fast enough for government use I might jokingly say.
Today I uninstalled Chrome as I am indeed not in the business of testing web pages in common browsers.
PaleMoon and Firefox is the ticket now. No idea who might be to blame for the crashes, but I need dd-wrt more than I do Chrome
Oh, BTW, the latest DD-WRT build works great on my R7800. Thanks!
lots of DSA WIP