HOWTOs

These HOWTO guides step you through various procedures, including installing FreshTomato Firmware, configuration options, other installations and more.

The guides are categorized according to which functions they serve.

• Basic concepts and procedures

• Perform Remote/Scripted Upgrade

• Schedule FreshTomato to "wake up" network devices

• Script Access Restrictions
• Script Device Filtering
• Enable Connectivity watchdog
• Limit number of sessions per device/subnet
• Retain DHCP lease info after a reboot
• Backup script
• Clear user iptables before applying new one (firewall/WAN up/etc)
• Determine external IP for all MultiWAN interfaces and log to file
• Disable admin access (SSH/GUI) from guest VLAN / WLAN
• Schedule a one-off reboot
• Actively monitor connections
• Enable/disable Ethernet port(s)
• Install Aria and Web Frontend
• Make command line history persistent

• Set up 2FA for SSH using Google Authenticator

• OpenDNS on Tomato
• Stubby
• DNS Flag Day 2020

• Adblock/DNS filtering updated blacklists

• Enable SSH Server
• Generate Key Pair for SSH using PuTTY
• Automate a command via PuTTY
• Enable Password-less Router to Router SSH

• Format USB storage with swap partition
• Install/Use Entware
• Check/repair USB Filesystem

• Add additional OpenVPN Server/Client connections
• Set up a tinc full mesh network
• Set up Wireguard
• Set up Wireguard with dynamic routing
• Set up IPSec
• Connect Freshtomato to Zerotier

• Wireless Ethernet Bridge mode
• Media Bridge mode
• Advanced Scenarios
• Toggle wireless/radio/SSID
• Script Wireless MAC filtering

• Online Tests (DNS, Privacy, etc)
• Log a Crash
• Speedtest from cli

• Home Assistant - Integration with FreshTomato