Firmware-update: Asus WL-500-serie 1.9.2.7 CR3 (Oleg)

Op het forum van Chupa.nl heeft Oleg nieuwe aangepaste firmware beschikbaar gesteld voor de routers uit de Asus WL-500-serie, te weten 1.9.2.7 CR3. Deze getweakte firmware is gebaseerd op de officiële 1.9.2.7-release van Asus, maar bevat een klein aantal verbeteringen en features. Versie 1.9.2.7 CR3 is vanaf deze directory voor de verschillende modellen te downloaden. Welke veranderingen Oleg in de nieuwe release heeft doorgevoerd, kan hieronder gelezen worden:

Firmware v.1.9.2.7 CR3

• Fixed problems with 1.9.2.7 radius authentication
• Fully functional client mode support, just like 1.7.5.9-5 had (i.e. WAN and WLAN interfaces roles are exchanged)
• Workaround for broken ISP DHCP servers configurations (solves problem with renewing IP addresses)
• Added checks to mount code to not mount the same partitions twice (so, you could now manually mount whatever you want in the post-boot script, and these partitions will not be mounted twice by firmware itself)
• Updated dropbear to latest 0.44test4, which includes client ssh now
• Replaced default ppp/pppoe stuff with ppp-2.4.3 (includes mschap/mschap v2 authentication support, should work with PPTP servers configured for mschap only)
• Various pptp/pppoe related fixes, Tx only option is now functional
• Added Idle timeout support, broken in the ASUS firmwares. For now, for this to work you need to manually specify DNS server addresses! To make connection permanent either specify idle timeout of 0 or use auto DNS (this way idle is ignored)
• Added support for invocation of ppp custom ip-up, ip-down scripts (should be placed to the /usr/local/sbin/
• Fixed problems with "PRINTER: bla-bla-bla" printed to the printer attached to the parallel port
• Added simple samba configuration from the web (remember to set LAN hostname, otherwise samba will not work!)

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