DNS Cache
- Firewalla has a build in DNSMASQ server, which can help you to speed up the DNS lookups. Eventually, you can use that to block any site you want. (The last part is not yet fully implemented)
- If you manually pointing the DNS server to Firewalla, it can also work with family mode and ad block mode. (not fully tested, but should work in theory)
VPN Server
- The VPN server doesn't rely on the monitoring capability. So it can be used independently.
Generic Linux Server
- We packed this little thing with a full Linux distribution. So you can pretty much do anything you want on it (given you know what you are doing)
- It is common scripting languages such as node, python
- It has built-in compiler such as GCC
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Additionally, I believe the following features can still be used even when monitoring is off:
1. Use DDNS to identify what your publicly facing (external/ISP assigned) IP address is.
2. Run external port scans to identify open ports that are exposed to the world
3. Run internal device port scans to identify what ports are open/listening on your internal devices
4. Would new device quarantine still work? Firewalla would still have to “monitor” for MAC address but it could just simply block everything associated with that MAC address
5. VPN server is already mentioned above but VPN client (functionality came after this post) should also work…
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