{"id":3137,"date":"2009-10-25T20:05:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T03:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2009-10-26T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:51:00","slug":"installed-tomato-firmware-loving-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/installed-tomato-firmware-loving-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Installed Tomato Firmware, Loving it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarcloud.com\/tomato\">Tomato firmware<\/a> on my WRT54GL about 15 minutes ago. I was clenching my teeth, preparing for a long slog through the trenches of firmwaredom but I got a very pleasant  \u00a0surprise!<\/p>\n<p>Installation was:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>download<\/li>\n<li>install firmware<\/li>\n<li>set the SSID and password<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I was up in 5 minutes! W00t!<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m wandering through the configuration and it all &#8220;just works&#8221;. I am very happy. I think I might have to make a donation to the project.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason I needed to upgrade was that the Linksys firmware has this asinine problem: you can open specific ports in the firewall for services like FTP and VNC but you can&#8217;t set static DHCP IP addresses with the server, you&#8217;ve got to muck with the client computer&#8217;s settings. That is dumb. All the open source firmware does it, DD-WRT, Open-WRT etc&#8230; but Tomato promised to do it EASILY. And it succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>5 stars for Tomato!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed the Tomato firmware on my WRT54GL about 15 minutes ago. I was clenching my teeth, preparing for a long slog through the trenches of firmwaredom but I got a very pleasant \u00a0surprise! Installation was: download install firmware set the SSID and password I was up in 5 minutes! W00t! Now I&#8217;m wandering through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}