Tomato (Firmware)

Tomato is an alternative firmware for several wireless routers, which are based on the Broadcom chipset. Tomato is a modification or extension of the original firmware from Linksys. To compile Tomato for Tomato available on the website source code, the source code of the Linksys firmware is also required.

Tomato can be installed in place of the pre-installed firmware from the manufacturer. It is a lean Linux distribution, which offers additional features from the manufacturer's firmware and can be adjusted flexibly. Provided are, among other things, a secure shell access ( BusyBox, Dropbear ), an easy to use graphical user interface with the SVG shown statistics IPP2P, Wake On LAN, quality of service, different wireless modes, for example, bridging, the Wireless Distribution system and a CIFS client. Unlike many original firmwares most settings from Tomato be taken without rebooting.

Since Version 1.24 Tomato also supports NAT Port Mapping Protocol.

Tomato supports the following routers:

  • Linksys WRT54G v1- v4, WRT54GS v1- v4, WRT54GL v1.x, WRTSL54GS ( no USB support ) ( no WRT54G/WRT54GS-Router with v5.0 , as they are currently the most sold)
  • Buffalo WHR- G54S, WHR -HP- G54, WZR- G54, G54 - WBR2
  • Asus WL500g Premium ( no USB support )
  • SparkLAN WX- 6615GT
  • Microsoft MN -700
  • Netgear WNR3500L

Similar alternatives are OpenWrt firmware, among other things, FreeWRT and DD -WRT.

Dropbear (software) Wireless bridge Server Message Block DD-WRT
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