WRT54GL> Tomato?

[dragon]

Just ordered a WRT54GL-UK to use with my BE* ADSL connection as I wanted the L7/I2PP firewall and advanced QOS capabilties of Tomato and the fact the BEbox's firewall/qos isn't quite customisable enough for my liking.

Anyone got exeperiance of Tomato on a wrt54gl?
Hopefully I made the right choice of router, Should arrive tommrrow or wednesday.

Anything I should know before Installing tomato?


I shall reconfigure the Bebox (speedtouch 585v6) to simply pass the external IP to the wrt54GL (I think its possible via the multi-ip template, if not i'll just have to DMZ the wrt54GL)
Shall then turn off the wi-fi, firewall.etc on the Bebox so I can have it just Provide the DSL connection and use the Linksys to do the
routing/Nat/Firewall/Qos.

[Druchii]

Tomato eh? Nice.

WRT54GL is the perfect version for what you are after.
You could also try out DD-WRT if you like. It's pretty good and i was using it on a WRT54G v5 (One of the crapper models)

Best thing to do is to read everything before even attempting anything. And be prepared to have to completely reflash your router more than once if it goes wrong. Best flash it through a wired connection too.

Also, afaik with Tomato, you cannot then put the original linksys firmware back on, without first flashing dd-wrt and using that to flash original firmware.

Good luck!

[dragon]

Using it now... Great so far.

Only niggle is I had to tell it which ports to block for untrusted machines where it would have been far simplier to tell it which ones to allow... thankfully it does let you put ranges in.

Loving the realtime graphs and the QOS/Firewall ablity to to Traffic blocking/Priortisation by TYPE as well as ports.

Can block quite a lot of common P2P traffic
I'm not sure if protical encryption would get around the block or not, haven't tried it yet....

Had no trouble getting the Bebox (speedtouch) into bridge mode, and even found out (via an unofficall forum) how to write a rule into the IPtables on tomato to allow me to access the Bebox webinterface @192.168.1.254 even though my network is now on 192.168.2.xxx and the WAN ip of the router is my external IP