Questions tagged [tomato]
Tomato is an alternative firmware for routers using Broadcom Chipsets.
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Configuring Tomato Web Usage log
I am running Linksys E2000 with TomatoUSB (on the 2nd floor) as a "switch" connected to my main router (d-link 655 with stock firmware on the 1st floor, wireless disabled). All my computers are wired ...
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QoS for variable bandwidth connections
My DSL connection does not have a reliable max speed. I've used Tomato's QoS in the past, and it seems to work, but chokes when the DSL speed decreases lower than the max setting.
If your upload ...
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Joining two routers together, but I have no access to the second router, although I know it's IP address and Gateway
I have temporarily moved into a rented apartment for 4 months, which has wireless. The trouble I am having is that the access points here are wifi only and no RJ45 and I need to use RJ45 to connect ...
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Bypass OpenVPN Tunnel for Specific Devices (IPs) on Tomato Router Setup
My setup is pretty straight forward.
ISP Modem - 192.168.1.1
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Router - 10.0.0.1
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I've setup OpenVPN on the router so that all trafic is tunnelled over VPN. I'd like for certain ...
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"GSM only" mode in modem settings in tomato router
I use Shibby tomato firmware in ASUS-N66U. I use the "3G modem" option in it for WAN. it was working fine till now with my SIM's 3G data plan.
I would like to use only 2G data from now, is there any ...
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Tomato OpenVPN Client forwarding setup
I am using a VPN solely to get a dedicated/static IP (because my home network has a dynamic IP because its cable). I dont care about hiding my identity etc. I have the VPN set up on my router running ...
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Cannot flash a Netgear R8000 router with Tomato or DD-WRT firmware,
I purchased a new Netgear R8000 but cannot flash it with Tomato (Shibby or Advanced) or DD-WRT (Kong).
Any time I try to use the initial image I receive an error message stating that the firmware is ...
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Tomato Firmware producing high cpu load average (but low cpu usage)
I using an Asus RT-N18U router with the "Advanced Tomato" firmware with shibby's firmware under the hood.
I recognized a constant cpu load average of 2.00, but at the same time a low cpu usage.
"top" ...
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Windows + Tomato - Client 2 Client logic = help please
Background: Client wants a (seemingly simple) VPN solution to connect his main-office(site A) to his satellite-office(site B)(in same city)
Never attempted OpenVPN. Purchased 2 ASUS RT-N66 routers ...
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Configure Wireless Bridge to Main Tomato Router
I have installed a tomato router in my home network as the main router. It is a Linksys E900 with Tomato (Shibby mod) release/version 121.
Now on the other side of the house, I have setup a HP V-M200,...
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Add a VLAN for virtual machines to Tomato USB
I've got an ASUS RTAC66U with Tomato Shibby 1.28 v115 installed.
I've got some VMs with which I'm trying to replicate a set of servers, down to IP address to debug some stuff.
I've set the VMs to ...
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Why did my router randomly assign wireless devices to br0 interface?
So I have a WRT54GL router with Tomato firmware on. I have few wireless devices on my network. Most of the time they work fine, but occasionally, some devices that were previously on router's eth1 ...
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How do I debug a WLAN issue?
Our home network consists of a Fritz!Box 7390 as ADSL modem/gateway and an old Linksys WRT54G running Tomato as additional access point. The latter is dumbed down to be nothing but an access point, ...
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WRT54G router with tomato firmware doesn't connect to internet if Windows 8 PC is suspended
This problem began occurring within the past couple of days, and to my knowledge I made no changes to any hardware or to my network layout.
I have a Windows 8 PC connected to a gigabit switch (D-Link ...
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Send magic packet when local IP is accessed
I have a Mac Mini with WOL enabled that's running a few media servers on different ports (8080 and 8082). In dd-wrt, by default, if the Mini was asleep, then attempting to access its static ip on one ...
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How to set WAN side buffers for WRT54GL running Tomato Firmware
I've recently set up a machine running m0n0wall to try and fight buffer bloat and do some traffic shaping. It was more convenient (geographically speaking) to connect the cable modem directly to my ...
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Why does my Tomato router seem to behave badly as time passes
I've set up a Firewall script on my Tomato router (a WRT54G 2.0, actually) that seems to behave correctly at start, but after one or two days, it seems that the script does not work anymore...
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How do I configure an Advanced Tomato router as a PIVPN OpenVPN client?
I have a PIVPN OpenVPN server in one fixed location. In another location, I have a Netgear R6400 wifi router with Advanced Tomato installed which I would like to be an OpenVPN client. This would ...
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USB Hard Drive Mounted On Tomato Router Does Not Return HD Space Remaining or Number Of Files
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Netgear R7000 with Shibby Tomato Firmware 1.28.0000 -132 K26ARM USB AIO-64K
WD MyBook 6TB USB Hard Drive mounted as 'fuseblk' device on my router.
Multiple LAN Windows 10 Computers on a ...
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iptables help - How to route guest network through wan firewall/port forwarding rules?
I have my network segmented into 2 parts:
Private Network - only trusted personal devices connected (wired & wireless), webserver, etc. and has outbound internet access. Also allowed access to * ...
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OpenVPN clients have no connectivity over IPv6
I'm trying to add IPv6 tunnel support to a OpenVPN server (i.e. clients can access the IPv6 internet through VPN).
The router that runs OpenVPN (Netgear WNDR4500v1 running Tomato v1.28-140) has IPv6 ...
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Advanced Tomato (Shibby) adblock whitelist doesn't work
I'm using Advanced Tomato (ver. 3.5-140), which is based on Shibby Tomato, on my Linksys E4200 router. The adblock function works, but the whitelist doesn't. When I add an url to the whitelist and ...
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how does specifying mssfix for openvpn enable use of netflix?
The AirVPN forums contain this bit of advice for those trying to use Netflix with the VPN on a tomato router:
For whoever has run into trouble as not being able to use Netflix when the VPN is ...
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Access shared folder from behind Tomato VPN
This is my setup:
(192.168.1.254)Modem->(192.168.1.1)Tomato(via cabel)->(192.168.1.148)PC(Shared folders).
I was able to setup vpn for 10.8.0.0 and with 255.255.255.0, but only problem was, that my ...
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hotplug script in Tomato Shibby
I use Advanced Tomato on my Asus RT-AC68R/U. This is Shibby Tomato with some GUI modification only. I want to connect via USB measuring unit and create for it dedicated, unique device. At this moment,...
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Bandwidth limiter in Tomato (by Shibby) does not work
My device is Linksys E1200V2 and it previously ran tomato-E1200v2-NVRAM64K-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-137-Max but the bandwidth limiter won’t work.
So I Googled around and found a couple threads that said ...
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Configure tomato firewall in VM or Debian / CentOs server
I want to use tomato as my internal firewall for accept/block network packets inside my server system. I know that tomato provides firmware for some routers but I want to do some tricky but don't know ...
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tomatousb - Allow only specific IP to connect to other IP port
I'm using tomato shibby on a router, and I'm trying to set some specific rules using iptables to set the following:
I have a server, which runs on 192.168.1.2 (LAN) port 2232.
Everybody from the LAN ...
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Anyone who knows about tomatousb, which version will work for me?
I have a netgear wndr3400v3 wireless router. It has 64mb ram and 8mb flash.
I put tomatousb firmware on it. Currently I have
Tomato Firmware 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-123 K26 USB WNDR
The download file is
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Ubuntu server drags network speed down to 10Mbps
I'm running an Ubuntu Server (14.04) on my home network. It acts as a OpenVPN server (Bridged, not routed) and it runs one Virtual Machine (KVM, through a bridged virtual network device (br0)). The VM ...
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Synology NAS (DSM 5) cannot access the Internet through Tomato router?
I have just revived my Linksys E3200 router by upgrading it to Tomato 1.28 (Shibby). I have a Synology NAS running DSM 5 attached by cable to the router.
After the upgrade my NAS can no longer update ...
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Can a consumer wireless router act as both a wireless client and access point?
I'm going to be moving in the future, and integrating my home network into that of my landlord. I wish to maintain an isolated network while using his internet connection, so I'm planning on cascading ...
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Segregating/Separating a device (ATT 3G Microcell) from internal network without using DMZ
I would like to put the ATT 3G Microcell in an isolated network from a network that has the rest of my devices, by which I mean I want the ATT 3G Microcell to only be able to access the Internet, but ...
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How to setup two-way routing with Tomato Wireless Client mode (different subnets)
Currently I have a Netgear R7000 as my main router, with internet coming from a Moto Surfboard SB6141 Cable Modem. I have a Linksys E3000 running Toastman TomatoUSB connected to the R7000 as a ...
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Tomato firmware ver 1.28: A.P. mode security choices
Briefly, I was using Tomato ver 1.28 on my Linksys for over a year at my old house. Think it was set to AP mode and using WPA2. New house owner won't allow connect to main wireless router so I have to ...
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Connect Tomato router over WiFi to public VPN WiFi and keep local WiFi & LAN behind NAT?
I want to use my Tomato based router as a WiFi gateway to the outside world, but also use the internal WLAN SSID.
The reason is that I have a couple of devices that I do not want to connect to the ...
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Disappearing DNS entry for VirtualBox instance: Tomato firmware on a Linksys router
My WRT54GL router running Tomato 1.28.1816 provides a DNS service to my network, and all devices have names which resolve forward and backward, including one VirtualBox virtual machine running 64 bit ...
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Permanent outgoing SSH tunnel with TomatoUSB
I use SSH tunnel(s) from computers in my home to a remote server, in order to have secure connections and appear to be where I'm not (I live in Europe but want to access Netflix for example).
The ...
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Restricting router bandwidth for others only when I need it
I work from home and I want to restrict bandwidth for the other computers in my home, but only when I need it. Otherwise, let them take all they want. All I can see is ways to restrict their bandwidth ...
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Is Samba "remote browse sync" possible across OpenVPN tunnel?
I'm connecting 2 TomatoUSB (Shibby build on WNR3500L v2) routers with an OpenVPN routed connection:
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| Router 1, subnet 20 | <--tunnel--&...
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WRT54GL Tomato Router in Client wireless mode to an iPhone Personal Hotspot
I am trying to connect a router with Tomato firmware to an iPhone 4. The goal is to connect to the Personal Hotspot in Client Wireless mode.
This should allow wired and wireless users to connect to ...
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Extend wireless from tomato to dd-wrt over ethernet cable
I have a tomato router upstairs (192.168.1.1 connected to modem for internet) and a dd-wrt router (192.168.1.2 connected to .1) downstairs. I have cat-5 running between the two routers. I would like ...
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Is it possible to use dnsmasq to map example.local to IP:port?
I'm using a Linksys WRT54GL running the Victek Mod Tomato 1.25 firmware. It has support for dnsmasq. I also have a local server running on a certain IP and port.
How can I map an internal domain name ...
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Laptop can't connect to wireless, requires reboot of router to get connection
I have a linksys router running the tomato firmware. Every day I have to power cycle the router to get my laptop to connect to it. All of the wired connections have no problem connecting. I have tried ...
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Setup FreshTomato 2021.2 on R7000 to forward traffic from internet through OpenVPN tunnel
With FreshTomato 2021.2 on R7000, I'm trying to allow port forwarding (80/443) inside OpenVPN client to able to reach a device on my LAN.
Here's the current status of iptables (iptables -S):
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Samba can not parse path when connect Time machine
I used freshtomato on Netgear R7000, and I wanted to make it as a time machine, so i installed Samba and Avahi, so I can find my hard drive in system preferences of macOS. But, mac keept asking me the ...
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Home network cable differences
I'm trying to extend my home network to a second building close to my house. I've run a cat6 cable from my router (Google Wifi) to the second building, and when I jack it into my laptop everything ...
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Why can't I ping an interface on another VLAN?
I have Netgear R7000 set up with FreshTomato, configured to act as a wireless AP. It has two bridges, feeding two virtual access points (SSIDs). The IP of one bridge is 192.168.3.2, and the other is ...
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What subnet/netmask for OpenVPN server config on Tomato router?
I am setting up my Freshtomato router as OpenVPN server. The IP range of my router is 192.168.x.x/24.
However, In the OpenVPN server configuration on this router the subnet/netmask is pre-set to 10.6....
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Tomato Router: Configure LAN4 to obtain IP from ISP
I would like to achieve a configuration of my network where a server/PC/set-top-box connected to LAN4 port obtain IP from ISP, and it is visible on ISP's network. Thank you for any suggestions.
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