[ale] FreshTomato !

[Boris Borisov]

Does the wifi works with fresh tomato.

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 10:03 lollipopman691 via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> After a couple of hours of minor struggle, my new used Asus RT-N10P is up
> and running with FreshTomato ( https://freshtomato.org ). It replaces an
> Asus RT-N16 from, like, 2012. That one was running a version of Tomato so
> old that you had to fiddle ssh to use special outdated kex algorithms to
> connect.
>
> Yay Me.
>
> I bought the hardware off Ebay for $15 or so with no power supply; the
> wall wart was maybe another $20. So far it seems adequate. I am not yet
> convinced that an order-of-magnitude more expensive router like the Asus
> RT-AC5300 would offer more benefit, especially since I will replace the
> stock firmware. I don't game on the internet either.
>
> Flashing the firmware image with tftp(1) was pretty ok easy, even with
> that fun scary moment where you wonder if you've Bricked your hardware. The
> biggest hurdle was getting dnsmasq(8) configured correctly, which took some
> fiddling with the GUI checkboxes and DHCP to resolve names in both the
> Outside World and my local network.  So much fun doing troubleshooting off
> my phone, which gets 1 or 2 bars of LTE at best here in the house.
>
>
> FreshTomato has some pretty cool DNS ad blocking stuff built in.  I run
> Adblock Plus and Ghostery on my Firefox browsers, but this might bear
> experimenting. Looks like it wants a URL to a blacklist. A quick DDG search
> finds https://curatedhub.github.io/CuratedHub/lists/domain_blacklists/ .
> Anyone have specific recommendations?
>
> -- CHS
>
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