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  • Freshtomato router firmware

    From poindexter FORTRAN@1337:3/178 to All on Thursday, January 22, 2026 11:30:29
    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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