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Tomato firmware
Last modified: Friday, October 03, 2008
Called Tomato, it is the name of a firmware
for wireless routers, including the popular WRT54G family. Tomato is designed to
be flashed onto your compatible wirelessrouter to replace the stock firmware loaded by the
vendor.
Like DD-WRT, the Tomato firmware can be installed on a
variety of wireless routers. Tomato supports the Linksys WRT54G family, which
also includes the WRT54GS, WRT54GL and WRTSL54GS. Note that Tomato will not work
with WRT54G routers later than version 4, since these do not run
Linux.
Unlike DD-WRT, which is available in numerous versions for different routers and
with different feature sets, there is only one primary version of Tomato. There
is also one alternate version compiled specifically for the Buffalo WHR-G125
router. [Source: Adapted from
Wi-FiPlanet.com]
Introduction to Tomato Firmware In the annals of computer software with bizarre and seemingly random names, "Tomato" is probably one of the less weird examples as these things go. But whether you say tomay-toe or tomah-toe, this one is neither a fruit nor a vegetable—it is a firmware for wireless routers, including the popular WRT54G family.
Tasty Tomato firmware for routers Breathe new functionality into your router with Tomato third-party firmware for popular models of Broadcom-based routers, including popular models manufactured by Linksys.
