How-To Bonding Tomato/MLPPP Router

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), and/or to circumvent Bell Canada's DPI-based throttling by using MLPPP on a single DSL line.

This documentation will only cover differences between this fork and the original Tomato firmware. For information on things not covered here, please consult the Tomato website (linked above).

Obviously, your ISP must support MLPPP in order for this firmware to be of any use. Currently, TekSavvy (http://teksavvy.com), Velcom (http://www.velcom.ca), Acanac (http://www.acanac.ca), Caneris (http://www.caneris.com), LOGIX (http://www.logix.ca), and NetFlash (http://netflash.ca) are known to support MLPPP, while Electronic Box (http://www.electronicbox.net) is currently working on enabling MLPPP support. If your ISP supports MLPPP and you can confirm that you have it working, please contact us and we'll add it to this list.

This video shows how to (real) bond two DSL lines using Tomato/MLPPP on a Linksys router. Your ISP must support MLPPP (few do).

Attached to this post, you will find v1.19-mp1 of the firmware, as well as the source.

This firmware has only been tested on the WRT54GL v1.1, but should run on the following routers:

- Linksys WRT54G v1-v4, WRT54GS v1-v4, WRT54GL v1.x, WRTSL54GS (no USB support)
- Buffalo WHR-G54S, WHR-HP-G54, WZR-G54, WBR2-G54
- Asus WL500G Premium (no USB support)

Download Tomato/MLPP firmware tomato-mlppp-1.19-mp1.rar

Download Zeroshell/MLPP firmware zeroshell-mlppp-mz1alpha1.tar.bz2

Attached to this post you will find the first release of Tomato/MLPPP, a fork of the popular Tomato firmware for various consumer broadband routers. It allows you to bond two or more DSL lines to multiply your speed, and also circumvents Bell's throttling even if you only have one DSL line.

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