This post is just a collection of my notes and experiences reversing, compiling and emulating Asus proprietary and Asuswrt-Merlin software, on an Ubuntu 20.04 box. It’s a bit of a pain really, I thought it would be pretty easy but everything’s been an issue, which is also what makes it sorta fun.

Worked primarily with https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng for the RT-AX88U router, but some binaries are just closed-source :/