MAC Filtering on Firewalla Gold

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icn2you

• April 02, 2023 02:38

Sorry if this is an elementary question, but can I do MAC filtering on Firewalla Gold? ChatGPT seems to think so, but the directions it provides are erroneous. In short, I want to create a whitelist for devices allowed on my LAN.

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  Firewalla

  • April 02, 2023 05:29

  If you are blocking a device from accessing the internet, it is done via MAC filtering. Same as "quarantine mode", which also uses MAC

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  icn2you

  • April 02, 2023 22:14
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  I'm not. I'm trying to create a whitelist of devices allowed on my network—in other words, a list that contains the *only* devices allowed on my LAN. My NETGEAR WAP allows me to do this for each VLAN; however, the Nest Wifi Router I use for all of my smart home devices does not. For this reason, I was hoping I could do it on the Firewalla Gold.

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  Chris Hewitt

  • April 03, 2023 20:44

  Please remember that Large Language Models can hallucinate (make up answers) and ChatGPT has no knowledge of anything after September 2021.

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  icn2you

  • April 05, 2023 04:46

  Right, but I don't seem to be getting an answer to my question from humans either! ;)

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  Chris Hewitt

  • April 05, 2023 10:31
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  Yes you can. You enable quarantine so any non-approved devices are blocked. You add a device to the approved list by taking them out of the quarantine group.

  Same function and concept just different terms and approach. 

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  icn2you

  • April 15, 2023 20:41

  Actually, that makes sense now. I think I was just too focused on how it's typically done--for example, on my NETGEAR WAP. Thanks for the clarification!

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