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Tomato is a family of community-developed, custom firmware for consumer-grade computer networking routers and gateways powered by Broadcom chipsets.The firmware has been continually forked and modded by multiple individuals and organizations, with the most up-to-date fork provided by the FreshTomato project.
Asus encourages and supports this use and advertises several routers as particularly suitable for DD-WRT including especially the RT-N16 gigabit router. See details on compatibility below. The RT-N13U/B, RT-N12, RT-N10+, WL-520GU and WL-520GC are also advertised as DD-WRT compatible though do not ship with this operating system.
Notable custom-firmware projects for wireless routers.Many of these will run on various brands such as Linksys, Asus, Netgear, etc. OpenWrt – Customizable FOSS firmware written from scratch; features a combined SquashFS/JFFS2 file system and the package manager opkg [1] with over 3000 available packages (Linux/GPL); now merged with LEDE.
The internet routers were disabled when a malicious firmware update sent to the company's customers deleted elements of the routers’ operational code, making them effectively inoperable.
Linux-based router project supporting a large set of layer-1 technologies (e.g. Ethernet LAN, Wireless LAN, ISDN, DSL, UMTS), layer-3 protocols and functionality (IPv4, IPv6, stateful packet filter), and various network-related functionality (e.g. Bridging, Bonding, VLANs; DNS, DHCPv4, DHCPv6, IPv6 RA; PPP (client+server), PPTP (client+server ...
Project Parent project Software license Latest release Alexa rank About OpenWrt: Linux: GPL, etc. : 2023-05-01 [1]: 17,042 [2]: Commotion Wireless: OpenWrt: 2014-10 ...
Since then, various open-source projects have built on this foundation, including OpenWrt, DD-WRT, and Tomato. In 2016, various manufacturers changed their firmware to block custom installations after an FCC ruling. [6] However, some companies plan to continue to officially support open-source firmware, including Linksys [7] and Asus. [6]
Linksys NSLU2 with Unslung firmware; Asus routers with USB and WL-700gE WL-HDD with Oleg's or OpenWrt or DD-WRT firmware; Certain Netgear routers with DD-WRT or Tomato firmware; Asustor on their entire AS-xxxx range [4] Synology DS-101, DS-101g+ and DS-101j with custom bootstrapping; QNAP Turbo NAS; Maxtor Shared Storage with OpenMSS firmware