[ale] FreshTomato !

[lollipopman691]

Yep, seems to work ok fine. SWMOB would be very unhappy without it.

- CHS

On Saturday, June 28th, 2025 at 10:12 AM, Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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 That one was running a version of Tomato so old that you had to fiddle ssh to use special outdated kex algorithms to connect.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.
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>> 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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