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Important notes before you start changing DNS settings on Asus Router

I never had this problem in the past and assume it is a problem with the newer version of Chrome. Safari and Edge still work. I'm only addressing my router not the internet! I can't imagine this being a big security issue. I'm not logging in remotely but with Wi Fi. I did change the default address of my router but that worked from. However, even with that, it’s still nice to have a shared storage for my home network. So today I bought a Seatate Ultra Slim USB 3 disk from Costco, with 2TB capacity. It is attached to my router, ASUS RT-AC68U. Here are the steps for: Router set up; Mount a drive on Windows; Mount a drive on Linux; Router: 1. Go to 192.168.1.1 through your. We have an Asus RT-N56U router at home, which is connected directly to a cable modem. I am attempting to remotely access the router's interface, and am having trouble doing so even after configuring it properly. I configured the router's firewall to allow remote access, using port 8080.

  • Your router model may have a different interface. Ensure that your device is running the most up-to-date firmware.
  • To unblock streaming services with our KeepSolid SmartDNS app, you have to register your IP address. Check out how to manage your IP address in the KeepSolid SmartDNS App and your KeepSolid User Office here.
  • Whenever your IP changes, our service will stop working for you. To avoid this, make sure to update your IP address via your User Office or KeepSolid SmartDNS app.
  • Before you start making any changes on your Asus Router, you should save your original DNS settings for future reference. You’ll need them in case if you want to switch back to the original settings.
  • We also recommend you to block Google DNS addresses (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) making some changes via your router settings. You can find the exact steps in the following section of our manual: How to block Google DNS on Asus Router.

How to set DNS on Asus Router

1. First things first, you should sign in to your Asus Router Admin Panel. To do this, you can just type http://192.168.1.1 to the browser address bar. In case if you still can’t access Asus Router Admin Panel, you can also enter http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.2.1

2. Now you should fill in the username and password of your Asus Router > click Login. Check out your manual handbook or your router box for the correct info of your default credentials. Or you can try to enter admin for username and password as your default credentials if you haven’t changed them before.

3. Press WAN.

4. Look for the Connect to a DNS Server Automatically item and set it to NO.

5. In the DNS Server 1 and the DNS Server 2 fields, you should enter the Asus Router primary and secondary DNS servers.

62.210.136.158 - EU DNS

69.162.67.202 - US DNS

Note: You should use the closest server to your real location as the primary DNS server and the second closest server as the secondary ones for Asus Router.

6. Press Apply.

7. Restart your Asus Router.

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1. Log in to your Asus Router > go to LAN that you can find under Advanced Settings.

2. Note down your LAN IP and after that, go to the Route tab.

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3. Now you should check Enable Static Routes.

4. In the appeared window, fill in the following fields:

Network/Host IP - 8.8.8.8

Netmask - 255.255.255.255 or 255.255.255.0

Gateway - Your LAN IP

Metric - 2

Interface - LAN

5. When you finish entering the needed info, press ➕ to add your route.

6. After that, you should repeat these steps for your secondary Google DNS (8.8.4.4).

7. When you set up routes, just press Apply.

8. Test your static routes to make sure you’ve blocked Google DNS. ​

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How to test your static routes

1. Go to Command Prompt on your PC or to Terminal on Mac.

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2. Enter ping 8.8.8.8 in the command line > click Enter.

3. Enter ping 8.8.4.4 in the command line > click Enter.

4. If you’ve done everything right, you’ll see the results as either a Timed Out or Destination Host Unreachable error.

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In this page I describe how to install an additional Syslog server on a router (Asus RT-AC56U) - we use an Entware package, so please refer to this page on how to install Entware on a router.
Let's start with assumption that there are some network devices, such as VOIP phones, that do not have an internal LOG, but rely on a remote Syslog server. On a router such as the Asus RT-AC56U, an additional Syslog server can be installed so that it can be used with any network device. Note that we install an additional 'syslog', as we do not touch the router's 'syslog' server. So we will use the Entware package called 'syslog-ng'.


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How to install 'syslog-ng' package

In order to install the 'syslog-ng' daemon with the Entware packages, we need to execute the following command :
opkg install syslog-ng
The above-mentioned package contains several files, the most important are the '/opt/sbin/syslog-ng' daemon, the '/opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf' configuration file and the start/stop script '/opt/etc/init.d/S01syslog-ng'. We create a backup copy of the configuration file '/opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf'.
The following is the sample content of the above-mentioned configuration file '/opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf' :

Please referto this page for further details about configuration file 'syslog-ng.conf'. The above example is mostly used to replace the router's 'syslog' daemon, while we need an additional 'syslog', without having to touch the router's native 'syslog'. Therefore we will create another configuration file.


How to setup the configuration file of 'syslog-ng' daemon

The following is another 'syslog-ng.conf' configuration file that let us have a remote LOG server for a Cisco managed switch.

In the above-mentioned configuration file we have passed parameters to the 'syslog-ng' daemon in order to 'listen' to a router port and all that arrives on that port we write it to a LOG file. Specifically we have:

  • in section 'source' we have setup as source the same IP address of the router, protocol UDP, and port 25000;
  • in section 'destination' we have setup as destination the file '/opt/var/log/cisco.log';
  • in section 'log' we have setup as connection the LOG file specified by section 'source' and section 'destination';

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Inside section 'options' the additional options dedicated to the 'syslog-ng' daemon are included, specifically:

  • for options 'chain_hostnames(no)' and 'keep_hostname(yes)' please refer tofollowing website;
  • with option 'create_dirs(yes)' we enable the creation of directories for the destination files;
  • with option 'flush_lines(0)' the daemon will act on every message received without creating any type of buffer;
  • with option 'log_fifo_size(256)' we set the number of messages to be stored on the output queue;
  • with option 'log_msg_size(1024)' we set the maximum message length in bytes;
  • with option 'stats_freq(0)' we set the daemon to collect statistics only between the 'source' and the 'destination';
  • we use option 'use_fqdn(no)' as we have used the option 'keep_hostname(yes)';
  • with options 'dir-owner(nobody)' and 'dir-group(nobody)' we set the default owner and group for the new created folders;
  • with options 'owner(nobody)' and 'group(nobody)' we set the default owner and group of destination files;
  • with option 'perm(0666)' we set the access permissions of the destination files;
  • with option 'keep-timestamp(yes)' we set the daemon to accept the date values received from the sender;
  • with option 'time-zone('Europe/Rome')' we set the daemon to convert the date values received from the sender according to the provided timezone.

In the above configuration file, the identifiers 'src_cisco' and 'log_cisco' are unique and must be used for a single sending device. Obviously we can manage multiple sending devices, using multiple identifiers, as in the following sample configuration file in which we have included, in addition to the identifiers for the above-mentioned Cisco switch, also the identifiers for two VOIP phones:


How to execute 'syslog-ng' daemon

To execute the 'syslog-ng' daemon, just run the command '/opt/etc/init.d/S01syslog-ng start'.


How to configure the remote 'syslog-ng' daemon on network devices

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How to test your static routes

1. Go to Command Prompt on your PC or to Terminal on Mac.

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2. Enter ping 8.8.8.8 in the command line > click Enter.

3. Enter ping 8.8.4.4 in the command line > click Enter.

4. If you’ve done everything right, you’ll see the results as either a Timed Out or Destination Host Unreachable error.

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      How to manage LOG files on a router
      How to install a Syslog server on a router
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      How to install the Python interpreter
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In this page I describe how to install an additional Syslog server on a router (Asus RT-AC56U) - we use an Entware package, so please refer to this page on how to install Entware on a router.
Let's start with assumption that there are some network devices, such as VOIP phones, that do not have an internal LOG, but rely on a remote Syslog server. On a router such as the Asus RT-AC56U, an additional Syslog server can be installed so that it can be used with any network device. Note that we install an additional 'syslog', as we do not touch the router's 'syslog' server. So we will use the Entware package called 'syslog-ng'.


How to install 'syslog-ng' package

In order to install the 'syslog-ng' daemon with the Entware packages, we need to execute the following command :
opkg install syslog-ng
The above-mentioned package contains several files, the most important are the '/opt/sbin/syslog-ng' daemon, the '/opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf' configuration file and the start/stop script '/opt/etc/init.d/S01syslog-ng'. We create a backup copy of the configuration file '/opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf'.
The following is the sample content of the above-mentioned configuration file '/opt/etc/syslog-ng.conf' :

Please referto this page for further details about configuration file 'syslog-ng.conf'. The above example is mostly used to replace the router's 'syslog' daemon, while we need an additional 'syslog', without having to touch the router's native 'syslog'. Therefore we will create another configuration file.


How to setup the configuration file of 'syslog-ng' daemon

The following is another 'syslog-ng.conf' configuration file that let us have a remote LOG server for a Cisco managed switch.

In the above-mentioned configuration file we have passed parameters to the 'syslog-ng' daemon in order to 'listen' to a router port and all that arrives on that port we write it to a LOG file. Specifically we have:

  • in section 'source' we have setup as source the same IP address of the router, protocol UDP, and port 25000;
  • in section 'destination' we have setup as destination the file '/opt/var/log/cisco.log';
  • in section 'log' we have setup as connection the LOG file specified by section 'source' and section 'destination';

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Inside section 'options' the additional options dedicated to the 'syslog-ng' daemon are included, specifically:

  • for options 'chain_hostnames(no)' and 'keep_hostname(yes)' please refer tofollowing website;
  • with option 'create_dirs(yes)' we enable the creation of directories for the destination files;
  • with option 'flush_lines(0)' the daemon will act on every message received without creating any type of buffer;
  • with option 'log_fifo_size(256)' we set the number of messages to be stored on the output queue;
  • with option 'log_msg_size(1024)' we set the maximum message length in bytes;
  • with option 'stats_freq(0)' we set the daemon to collect statistics only between the 'source' and the 'destination';
  • we use option 'use_fqdn(no)' as we have used the option 'keep_hostname(yes)';
  • with options 'dir-owner(nobody)' and 'dir-group(nobody)' we set the default owner and group for the new created folders;
  • with options 'owner(nobody)' and 'group(nobody)' we set the default owner and group of destination files;
  • with option 'perm(0666)' we set the access permissions of the destination files;
  • with option 'keep-timestamp(yes)' we set the daemon to accept the date values received from the sender;
  • with option 'time-zone('Europe/Rome')' we set the daemon to convert the date values received from the sender according to the provided timezone.

In the above configuration file, the identifiers 'src_cisco' and 'log_cisco' are unique and must be used for a single sending device. Obviously we can manage multiple sending devices, using multiple identifiers, as in the following sample configuration file in which we have included, in addition to the identifiers for the above-mentioned Cisco switch, also the identifiers for two VOIP phones:


How to execute 'syslog-ng' daemon

To execute the 'syslog-ng' daemon, just run the command '/opt/etc/init.d/S01syslog-ng start'.


How to configure the remote 'syslog-ng' daemon on network devices

On network devices, simply go to the 'syslog' tab, often called 'Remote Log Servers' (or whatever), and set the IP address of the Router, where the 'syslog-ng' daemon is installed, and the UDP port used in the configuration file of the 'syslog-ng' daemon, inside the 'source' section.

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How to manage the LOG file created by 'syslog-ng' daemon

Keep in mind that the LOG file created by the 'syslog-ng' daemon can reach a considerable size. For a correct management of the LOG file, refer to the page 'How to manage LOG files on a router' on this website, keeping in mind that the LOG file path is that one set on the 'syslog-ng' daemon configuration file inside section 'destination'.





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