r/TomatoFTW

So I have a net gear r7000 nighthawk that I upgraded to fresh tomato, I seem to sorta figured it out but not fully because I can’t get the wifi to actually work and yes I’ve tried a lot of troubleshooting steps (but I still wanna hear from you guys) on how to fix this because I want to move forward with this peice of shit so I can install vpn on it and game so pls help me out because I’m a beginner and you guys are experts at this. Thank you.

Hello all first post is I missed some rules or common practices I apologize tell me and I will happily fix. Also I will appreciate any help I can get on this as I am about ready to feed my router to a garbage disposal.

I am rebuilding my entire home network. I already have OPNSense running and configured. Different VLANs running fine into a TP Link Archer a6, as well the exact VLANs I am gonna mention below running on a TP Link Archer c59 so I know OPNSense is good.

I am trying to set up on tomato a second AP from the c59 exact match. The VLANs including are VLAN 30 admin (all this does is allow me from a different sub net to have remote access to the router so I dont need to climb up on ladders any time I need to access the router), VLAN 31 is designed to handle all my IoT devices, VLAN 32 is meant for HAOS server (only one of the APs needs this but it is in there).

If the 3 VLANs are too difficult I can easily move the working c59 to the only location where I need all 3 (right next to my HAOS box). And use freshtomato for just IoT and Admin.

I have freshtomato on an old school netgear WNDR3400 (I have both a v1 and v2 if it still matters after I flashed).

I already have the vlans set with the internal id (1-15) and my vlan id 30,31,32 I have read this could be the issue tried them at 5,6,7 no luck.

I have the port tagged that comes in from OPNSense port 4 nothing else untagged as it has no physical ports in use. I bridged them to br1, br2 and b3. Then tried setting IPs and not setting IPs in LAN. There is no DHCP because OPNSense handles all of that.

To make this work in DD WRT on the c59 I needed to set a gateway for each VLAN to match what it is in OPNSense. VLAN 31 is at 192.168.31.1, 32 at 32.1, and 30 at 30.1. That way all traffic has a place to return from the AP.

Freshtomato appears to only have a default gateway option under LAN so I am kinda stuck here. The real rub is the V1 support DD WRT and exposes this so I know its possible somehow.

After all the steps above (and then mapping them to wifi to test that as well) nothing works no wifi no remote access nothing

Again any help will be great appreciated.

I get kicked out 75% of the time now.. if not more. It started a few weeks ago.
I cant reliably take part in any discussions anymore.

viewing does not seem to be a problem. logging in is. the second I submit my credentials I am blocked... which seems odd.

I mean if it was a problem with bots then if the initial cloudflair checkbox, where it says "confirm you are not a bot" lets you through and you are free to view all the discussions... why would the act of then confirming who you are get you kicked out?

I cant be bothered to add another node to the FreshTomato openvpn or wireguard every time I get booted out... it is not quick and does not guarantee I will get in anyway... at this point its like... whats the point?

I flashed Fresh Tomato to my Netgear R7000 router today. I've successfully setup my main 2.4 & 5Ghz networks. Miracles can happen!

I'd like to create guest networks (one 2.4, the other 5) so my smart devices (I think they're referred to as "IoTs?) are "quarantined" from my main network.

Please forgive me if I don't get the lingo perfectly correct. I am NOT a wizard with any of this sort of thing.

I tried to create the guest networks using the FT Wiki but it's not intuitive for non-computer-wizard me.

Can someone possibly really dumb down the steps I have to take in order to create these 2 networks?

Thank you!