TomatoUSB

Hello,

I really like your mod, it's nice to be able to use tomato on my wrt160n instead of dd-wrt!

One feature I really miss is dual-wan.
I can make my dual wan functional through CLI, with a new vlan creation, but it's a pain to manage and keep alive since the second connection is unstable.

An other fork implements dual wan for tomato, but it's sadly not compatible with my router. I guess dual-wan implementation is mainly an addition to the GUI and some config to monitor the connection (if it's pppoe for example)

The fork is: http://www.dualwan.cn/

I'd do the interface changes myself, but I do not quite understand how the script language in the GUI works. For what I see, the script only outputs all the nvram and the rest is managed through javascript, then the server updates the nvram if the javascript post it back…

Anyway, if you could implement it (maybe take it from the other fork?) or tell me more about how the GUI works, it would be very nice!

Thanks, and keep up the good work on this work, it's very nice :)

Hi Alex,
I second that. It would be really nice to have GUI options for controlling VLANs (physical ports) and use them as another WAN or LAN interfaces.

If you need tester, I would like to help.

I also would like this kind of feature to be added on. Or if it is to complicated for you to figure it out….
Why dont you (Mr teddy bear) write and email to the DualWAN firmware author to ask for English version. As it is actually base from your firmware (the TomatoUSB).

I tested Tomato DualWan (1.28.0518 MIPSR2 K26 USB 8M) firmware on my Asus RT-N16.

This firmware is actually base from Teddy Bear TomatoUSB firmware, but they mod it to enable extra features such as :
- dual wan systems
- load balancing features (WAN1:WAN2 ratio)
- new QOS systems base on IP address or MAC address
- USB 3G/UMTS modem support
- bandwith monitoring per IP/Client
- and many more features.

I actually like it. but it is in chinese language. The dual wan also is solid stable. I tested it wan1 to connect to PPPOE and WAN2 as wireless Client. Manage to install optware transmission on it also. It max out both WAN gateway.

The DualWan group in China refuses to release their source code/mods to Tomato(USB). Feel free to pester them to do so.

Rodney

i also email them. but no reply yet from the author… :(

I have had brief communication in the past with Chinese DualWan author using Google Translate on both sides. He is unable to support an English language GUI, due to unfamiliarity with English language. He chooses not to publish source-code, partly to retain control and to avoid it being stolen by commercial non-free competitors (WayOS?). He has shared some code snips, for "nocatsplash Captive Portal" for example - but we found it unreliable both in original dualwan and stock tomato. There's a protection on use of "the firmware mod kit" to modify the web pages etc - but it was easily reverse engineered in the versions I looked at, but it was not sufficiently stable in dhcp wan connection for use - simple bugs to do with dhcp-release buttons which would be easy to fix, but presumably a connection method not widely used in China?

I'm sure the core of multi-wan is straighforward, and wouldn't add much size to tomato, the Broadcom original SDK clearly had some provision, and there are dd-wrt, openwrt and tomato scripts to add it - but gui support would be great. You may think you don't need multi-wan, but one popular use of the Chinese version is to use both your own dsl connection, and simultaneously that of your neighbour via wireless. With their agreement this would be a good fall-back for many of us!

It is quite a shame the dualwan author chooses to abuse the GPL, so we have to assume the code is a complete mess with hidden backdoors and trojans?

thats what this mod is for :
http://fixppp.org/index.php?p=download
tomato MLPPP with dual wan support.
Tomato/MLPPP is a fork of the popular Tomato firmware (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) for consumer broadband routers. The primary goal is to enable users to bond multiple DSL connections using MultiLink PPP (MLPPP).
source code is available.

MLPPP is a special case of bonding 2ADSL channels, but sure it should be merged in! There was a lack of symmetry when I last looked (due to additional bridge for second wan), and it was unfortunate they started with an old stock Tomato - a lot of stuff was back-ported to the old Linux 2.4.20 kernel - I suspect it would have been easier to start with the 'up-to-date' tomatousb K2.4 or K2.6 kernels, and then be an easier option to merge and selectively compile into tomatousb.

I would be more interested in dual dynamic IP WAN connections, or the mixed dhcp + wireless. Its fairly straightforward to create the extra Linux interfaces, but the hard bit is integrating it into the GUI and all the core rc functions (port forwarding ddns etc). dd-wrt has load balancing/failover scripts, the Chinese dualwan has an "Assign out" screen which allows you to create rules about what sort of traffic is allowed down each wan port (i.e ISP specific mail, or bulk p2p down one http down another?), and it also has a ping script to do failover. Every function that refers to a wan port, must be changed to consider all wan ports, every web gui that configures the wan must also select one or more wan ports…

I will give some review of DualWAN Tomato Capabilities
- Unleash the true potential of TomatoUSB Firmware

1) Client Daily Bandwidth Monitoring.

2) Client Real-Time Bandwidth Usage

3) Outbond WAN Allocation

4) Smart QOS Management

5) Bandwith Limiter per IP

6) Application Restriction

7) WAN load balancing Connection Check Up

8) 3G USB Modem WAN Connection. + Inteligent Dual WAN Balancing Distribution

Wow, that looks very nice indeed, particularly the GUI for 3G connection control.
It's really a shame that the Chinese author won't cooperate….