Tomato firmware

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Tomato

Screenshot of Tomato web user interface
Developer:	Jonathan Zarate
Initial release:	September 7, 2006
Latest release:	v1.01.0918 / December 12, 2006
OS:	Linux
Platform:	specific Broadcom-based routers
Use:	Router-OS
License:	GPLv2
Website:	http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

Tomato is a free open source Linux-based firmware for several Broadcom-based wireless routers, including the Linksys WRT54G. It is maintained by Jonathan Zarate, who also developed HyperWRT +tofu. The firmware is notable for its web-based user interface that includes several types of bandwidth usage charts, advanced QoS/access restriction features, raised connection limits for P2P networking, and support for 125 High Speed Mode (marketed by Linksys as "SpeedBooster").

1 Features
2 Licensing
3 Supported devices
4 Other third-party firmware
5 External Links

[edit] Features

Dynamic interactive GUI using Ajax and SVG
CLI (using BusyBox) with access via TELNET or SSH (using Dropbear)
DHCP server (using Dnsmasq) with dynamic and static DHCP leases
DNS forwarder (using Dnsmasq) with local hostnames, local domain names, and caching of internet addresses
Netfilter/iptables with customizable settings, IPP2P and l7-filter
Wake-on-LAN
Advanced QoS: 10 unique QoS classes defined, real-time pie graph display of prioritized traffic with drilldown into class details
Bandwidth graphing/statistics: real-time, last 5 hours, daily, monthly
Wireless modes: access point (AP), wireless client station (STA), wireless ethernet (WET) bridge, wireless distribution system (WDS aka wireless bridging), simultaneous AP and WDS (aka wireless repeating)
Dynamic DNS service with ezUpdate and services extended for more providers
Syslog viewable through the GUI (also downloadable)
SES button control
JFFS2
CIFS client
Adjustment of transmit power of wireless LAN, antenna selection, and 14 wireless channels
'Boot wait' protection (increase the time slot for uploading firmware via the boot loader)
Advanced port forwarding, redirection, and triggering with UPnP page to view and delete UPnP forwarded port mappings
Advanced access restrictions
Init, Shutdown, Firewall, and WAN Up scripts
Uptime, load average, and free memory status
Reboot ability, although almost no configuration changes require a reboot
Wireless survey page to view other networks in your neighborhood
Known bugs in Broadcom-based Linksys firmware fixed
Plus other features

[edit] Licensing

While the core source code is licensed under GPLv2, the source code for the user interface is under a more restrictive license which forbids use without the author's permission.

[edit] Supported devices

Linksys WRT54G (v1-v4 only)
Linksys WRT54GS (v1-v4 only)
Linksys WRT54GL
Buffalo WHR-G54S
Buffalo WHR-HP-G54

Tomato is not compatible with Linksys WRT54G/GS v5 and later.

[edit] Other third-party firmware

Free software Portal

Several groups are actively developing third-party firmware for Linksys routers. For a list of related software projects, see WRT54G Third-Party Firmware Projects.