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Fresh Tomato

FreshTomato is a firmware project based on Linux, targeting home and SOHO routers. FreshTomato is distributed on the GPL license.

FreshTomato supports Broadcom based systems.

I currently run Fresh Tomato firmware on two R8000 Netgear Nighthawks.

It is far superior in both security and features than the original Netgear firmware that came with these routers. Unlike Netgear, updates for the router firmware to address security vulnerabilities or correct bugs are available on a regular basis. Netgear would usually take well over a year to address security issues, if at all.

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Fixing a 'Bricked' R8000 Router

Recently, I had a Netgear R8000 brick on me when I attempted to flash Tomato firmware to it. Not sure why it did it as, up to this point, I've never had a problem flashing Tomato on any other R8000.

Anyway, I thought I would detail the steps and requirements I used to 'unbrick' my router and get it working with Tomato firmware.

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