Public IP Tracking

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Donny

• January 13, 2023 10:06

Is there a way to see what pubic IPs the Firewalla has been assigned over its lifetime? Would be useful to be able to lookup the assigned WAN addresses at specific points when troubleshooting.

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  Firewalla

  • January 13, 2023 18:12

  I am curious what kind of issues requires the router to remember old IP addresses? If it is useful, we probably can build a feature to help you beyond just recording IP

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  Donny

  • January 13, 2023 18:18
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  Usually, when troubleshooting firewall policies, VPNs, or other connections between sites or services in which a user may have an ISP with dynamic addressing. Not a priority, but was looking for something (even if just a log file) which records the last few addresses and date of change. 
  
  For me, it would also be a nice add on to have a notification from Firewalla saying "Firewalla [Interface Name] interface IP has changed from [old address] to [new address]."

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  James Willhoite

  • January 31, 2023 17:02

  Hmm... Interesting. I have a script that checks for a new IP address and updates it via API so my domain name will have the correct IP address. You could script to do the same thing and just log it somewhere. Even though the IP address is Dynamic, it typically doesn't change very often. In fact, I don't think I've ever had my IP address change unless I forced it to ...... 

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