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DevendraS
Aspirant
Apr 27, 2022
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MR60 Address Reservation updates are lost after reboot !!

Hi There, I have a MR60 router with 2 MS60 satellites. Firmware was upgrade just today to V1.1.6.124_2.0.59 so I am not sure if that has caused the following issue.    I need to have some 42 MAC a...
  • EternalStudent's avatar
    EternalStudent
    Apr 29, 2022

    "after firmware update"

     

    I've had things go weird after firmware updates.  I've read time and again that it's a best practice to factory reset after a router firmware update, then reconfigure your device as needed.  Similar to BIOS updates.  I assume because they don't test migrating all possible settings, but they do test if applying new settings from a reset state works well.

     

    Some people mentioned doing a setting backup, then restore...but that seems like taking the same old (possibly bad/wrong) settings and reapplying them.  So I tend to just manually configure things again if I try this step.

     

    This is one reason I haven't tried to whitelist my devices as you seem to be doing.  Yes it'd give a bit of extra protection from someone else using your network (unless they copy an existing MAC address), but I'd think a good wifi password + high WPA setting (3 or 2-AES) should protect you fairly well too.  But I'm not an expert.

  • DevendraS's avatar
    DevendraS
    Aspirant
    May 05, 2022

    So the full factory reset and setup from scratch worked. It took me couple of hours to get all the settings back but had no other choice.

    I am now able to change the settings and even after a restart I do not loose them. Pi-Hole is now my DNS ... no more ads !!

     

    Thanks for all your help EternalStudent and FURRYe38 

    -Devendra