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Re:Asus and DD-WRT – don't even think about it by poisonborz on Sunday February 13, 2022 @08:19AM (#30321574)
It's a completely different project. From the user perspective:

- DD-WRT contains a lot of features that are exposed on the UI, but the project is almost dead, with the last stable release being in 2020, but activity died probably a decade ago.

- Open-WRT is very active, but the UI is an afterthought. The feature set is barebones and you need to install plugins for a lot of things - requiring command-line configuration. The Gargoyle project is a more ui-friendly fork, but it's also not really active, and supports a narrow set of routers.

- Besides Merlin, for Broadcom/ASUS, Tomato (and derivative projects) is an alternative, but newer routers are not really supported it seems.

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Re:Asus and DD-WRT – don't even think about it by MegaDeKay on Sunday February 13, 2022 @08:37AM (#30321673)
I just checked out Advanced Tomato for a number of routers and the latest update was late 2017. I stopped using Tomato by Shibby for the same reason. Even if the possibility of adding features dried up, I'd have expected some kernel, security, or GUI updates over that time.
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Re:Asus and DD-WRT – don't even think about it by starky on Sunday February 13, 2022 @10:30AM (#30322282)
Tomato firmware seems to jump to a new project every few years, the version being updated now is called FreshTomato with the latest release being from December 2021.
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Re:Asus and DD-WRT – don't even think about it by MegaDeKay on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:09PM (#30367696)
Appreciate the pointer, kind stranger! I'll have to load this up onto my Asus router that is no longer supported by Merlin. I hate that the stock Asus firmware doesn't let me monitor IP traffic per client. This looks to be supported by FreshTomato.
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