Freshtomato router firmware
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All on Thu Jan 22 11:30:29 2026
I started out using DD-WRT, then found Tomato, then forgot about it for
a time while I started playing with OpenWRT. One of the problems I've
found is OpenWRT's support for Broadcom chipsets, which I have a couple
of routers with Broadcom SoCs.
I understand Broadcom isn't great about facilitating F/OSS drivers for
their chips, but here we are.
I was running plain old Netgear firmware on a R8000 and found
FreshTomato, a fork of the original project. Same interface, same
features, a little cleaner looking that DD-WRT, and telnet/SSH access;
you can stop/start services, edit configs and so on.
Comes with an OpenVPN client and server like DD-WRT did, but I'm only
using this as an AP. One nice thing is that they have an "all-in-one"
build meant for border routers and a VPN-only build for APs or more
secure environments.
One more feature I hadn't seen in DD-WRT - adblock built-in to the
router!
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