Firewalla and Starlink Management

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Mark Seamans

• January 09, 2023 18:11

I have eliminated my Starlink's router, and have it connected directly to my Firewalla Purple.  It has been working great!  However, the dish has some management items that are accessible via 192.168.100.1. (Such as stow, debug status, etc..)  When I attempt to access behind the Firewalla, naturally, it does not pass traffic to this IP out the want interface since it is a RFC1918 Address.  Is there a way I can allow this to be passed for this /32 or /24 only?  Also, just to note, the inside LAN address range is NOT 192.168.100.0/24

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  Firewalla

  • January 09, 2023 20:48

  Is your WAN interface the same as 192.168.100.x? if it is, then you should have a route to the gateway. 

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  Mark Seamans

  • January 09, 2023 20:52

  WAN Interface is assigned via DHCP from Starlink.  It is NOT 192.168.100.x/24.  It is a publicly accessible IP.  Again, this is just a management IP, not routable.

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  Firewalla

  • January 09, 2023 21:28

  If this is a hidden IP inside the modem itself, I am wondering if you can add a route natively on Linux to make this work. (I don't have a system with me, so not sure if it will work).  

  ip route add 192.168.100.0/24 dev eth0

   

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  Mark Seamans

  • January 09, 2023 21:30

  Can I get to a console on the firewalla to do this??

   

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  Firewalla

  • January 10, 2023 01:07

  see https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004397274-How-to-access-Firewalla-using-SSH-

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  Mark Seamans

  • January 10, 2023 15:00

  If this command does work, is there a preferred place I can add this command to be executed at startup?  Possibly delayed?

   

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  Firewalla

  • January 10, 2023 17:54

  see https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360054056754-Customized-Scripting-

   

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  Mark Seamans

  • January 11, 2023 14:05

  Ok, I fiddled around with sshing, etc... what worked was not sshing in at all.  Using the Routes applet, I added a route matching the ip range of the starlink out of band management, 192.168.100.0/24, On network LAN1 (inside lan) on the WAN interface "Starlink" and there ya go..Joe's you Uncle, it worked.  I can access stow, debug info and such....Thanks!

   

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  Firewalla

  • January 11, 2023 17:40

  Great! can you post the working ip route here? in case others want to do the same? thanks!

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  Mark Seamans

  • January 11, 2023 17:42

  Here is the route I created!

  

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  Jason Beaty

  • March 20, 2023 18:51

  Thank you! That worked for me too. I just got mine setup today connected to my router....this worked great. 

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  Harun Ismo

  • September 19, 2023 14:02

  Hi, I am new here and am considering buying a firewalla to try it out, Someone posted here earlier that they managed to bypass the starlink router , I am not exactly sure how he did it but i am guessing He had used the starlink adapter to bye-pass the router.Please i need someone to help me clarify.

  Cheers

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  Peter Wilcox

  • September 30, 2023 14:52

  I also just purchased StarLink... What type of setup would you suggest or what Firewalla would you suggest to purchase to have the great functionality that it brings?
  
  
  

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  Firewalla

  • September 30, 2023 16:34

  The Gold series is likely a better choice. You can run dual WAN with it 

  • standby/failover support
  • route low latency traffic to a slower landline (DSL ...)

   

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  Peter Wilcox

  • September 30, 2023 18:05
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  Ok, well now I am going to have to change my order... 

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  Robert Kobbeman

  • February 28, 2024 17:41

  I know this is an old post, but thought I would reply.

  I’ve been on Starlink for several years now, and have been using FWG+ for several months.

  I also have Starlink for my camper with FWP.

  If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.

  I kept DSL for a year after I got Starlink, not knowing how reliable it would be. I cancelled my DSL a year ago and haven’t looked back.

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  E J

  • December 11, 2024 22:39

  Hey Robert, has this interfered with Starlink updates at all?

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