[ale] FreshTomato !

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On Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 10:28 AM lollipopman691 via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Yep, seems to work ok fine.  SWMOB  would be very unhappy without it.
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>    - CHS
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> On Saturday, June 28th, 2025 at 10:12 AM, Boris Borisov via Ale <
> ale at ale.org> wrote:
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> Does the wifi works with fresh tomato.
>
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 10:03 lollipopman691 via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
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>> 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 old that you had to fiddle ssh to use special outdated kex algorithms to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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