Asus-Merlin
VPN
Protect every device at home, smart TVs and consoles too, with IPHush on your Asus-Merlin. Load the WireGuard file from your account, then choose one device or the whole network. Zero connection logs.
Asus-Merlin VPN at a glance
How to set up IPHush on Asus-Merlin
1 · Before you start
- Save a backup of the router’s settings
Administration → Restore/Save/Upload Setting → Save setting
- Keep a way back in
Keep a cable to the router and its admin password at hand while you change it.
2 · Your file
- Make the file for your router
Sign in at iphush.com/app, open Devices, add a Router and choose Asus-Merlin. The app makes IPHush.conf for your router and shows this guide with your own values filled in.
3 · Add the tunnel
- Import the file
VPN → VPN Client → WireGuard → Client 1 → Import config → IPHush.conf → Apply
Set Description to IPHush. The file has no DNS line. If the import refuses it without one, add the line DNS = 10.96.0.1 under [Interface] and import it again.
- Turn it on
VPN → VPN Client → WireGuard → Client 1 → Enable WireGuard: Yes → Apply
- See the handshake
VPN → VPN Status shows the WireGuard client as connected.
4 · Choose who uses it
One device
Only the devices you choose use IPHush; the others keep your normal connection.
- Policy rules
- Send the device through it
- IPv6: no leak
The whole network
Every device on the network uses IPHush. The order matters: the router must reach the IPHush server outside the tunnel before the default route moves into it.
- Keep the IPHush server on your normal connection
- Default route through IPHush · VPN → VPN Client → WireGuard → Client 1 → Redirect Internet traffic through tunnel: Yes (all) → Apply
- DNS through IPHush · WAN → Internet Connection → WAN DNS Setting → DNS Server: 10.96.0.1
- IPv6: no leak · IPv6 → Connection type → Disable
- Optional kill switch · VPN → VPN Director → Killswitch (for WGC1)
5 · Check it works
- The tunnel is up
VPN → VPN Status shows the WireGuard client as connected.
- Check from a device
On a device that should use IPHush, open https://whoami.iphush.com/ in a browser. It must show "iphush": true and an IPHush address. A device outside the option you chose shows false: that is expected.
Asus-Merlin VPN: questions
Which Asus-Merlin firmware works with IPHush?
Asuswrt-Merlin 388 or newer.
Can the whole home go through IPHush on Asus-Merlin?
Every device on the network uses IPHush. The order matters: the router must reach the IPHush server outside the tunnel before the default route moves into it.
Is there a kill switch on Asus-Merlin?
Your choice: with it, devices sent to IPHush have no internet while it is down.
Which plan includes a router?
Family and Pro each include 1 router, and the router counts as one connection: every device behind it is protected. On Pro it leaves from your dedicated IP.
Has IPHush tested these steps on Asus-Merlin?
The steps follow the vendor’s current documentation; we have not yet run them on this router in our lab, and the guide in your account says so. Menu names can differ slightly between firmware versions.