Tomato – router firmware for Linksys routers

technology January 17th, 2008

I’ve been a DD-WRT user for some time, and just found a nice firmware image called Tomato (What is it with open source projects and silly names?) that looks nice. It’s a little simpler than DD-WRT, the interface is AJAX, and it has a nice bandwidth graphing page that looks useful.

I’m going to set up QoS on it and try to prioritize VOIP and VPN traffic over Bittorrent, see if I can gain some control over bandwidth usage.

I’d like to see if I can get it to work on a Belkin F5d7230-4 router, similar to the Linksys but with only 2MB of flash RAM. I’ve tried loading the mini version of DD-WRT, but could never get it to load.

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6 Responses to “Tomato – router firmware for Linksys routers”

  1. Sidney Says:
    July 11th, 2010 at 12:33 am

    Did it pan out?
    If I read you correctly, you were trying to flash the v1000 version of the belkin F5D7230-4 router.
    I am about to consider doing the same thing but from what I’ve read so far, only the linksys routers are do-able. However, the descriptions do read… and compatible broadcom related hardware… but unlike DD-wrt I can’t find much literature with any particular success stories about what you did.

  2. Kurt Weiske Says:
    July 11th, 2010 at 12:36 am

    I’ve been running DD-WRT on a F5D7230-4 for some time – works like a charm. It did take several tries to get the flash procedure to work.

  3. Sidney Says:
    July 11th, 2010 at 1:11 am

    I’ve was unclear, did tomato work for my question above?

  4. Kurt Weiske Says:
    July 11th, 2010 at 1:36 am

    Tomato won’t work on a Belkin router, but DD-WRT Micro will.

  5. Sidney Says:
    July 11th, 2010 at 11:28 am

    Oh, okay. Merci for your experience on this.

    I’ve managed to flash the mini version of the DD-WRT into the v1000 (as it has 16 Mb of Ram and 4MB flash). That’s why I was asking.

    Thanks again for your input.

  6. Sidney Says:
    July 11th, 2010 at 11:30 am

    ^(above post)
    I meant I have done this before now….

    And so when I saw what you wrote above, that got me excited to perhaps entertaining a concept about giving Tomato a try.

    But thanks to you, I won’t have to waste any time on this now.. (hahaha).

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