Questions on group membership and UI

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David Lambert

• July 20, 2023 15:22

I've got a group of devices I'd like to set up for a periodic internet pause.  I added them to a group, and set a rule to turn off internet in-out for a period of time.

I'm still seeing internet traffic in and out in this group during those hours, though, so I've done something wrong.  These devices are also part of another group, and the other group is not restricted in this way.  Do I need to remove these devices from the other group in order for rules to apply, and if so, how do I do that?  I can only see an option to delete the device altogether from Firewalla, which isn't really what I'm after.

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  Firewalla

  • July 20, 2023 16:26

  Tap on the flows from these groups, if they are UDP and the traffic is either tx = 0 or rx = 0, then the traffic is likely just send or receive, then blocked. (this is how linux account traffic)

  Also, you can't have the same device in two groups, how did you do that?

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  David Koppenhofer

  • July 20, 2023 16:30

  You can't have a device in more than one group at the same time.

  You can choose the group a device is in from the device page (Group shown below the app controls section) or on the group itself by clicking Devices.

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  David Lambert

  • July 20, 2023 16:48

  Ok, my bad on one part at least.  The device isn't in two groups, it's in one group and one network - I didn't pay attention to the "Groups" tab loading "Groups and Networks" together.

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  David Lambert

  • July 20, 2023 17:08

  I'm also seeing the same device name showing up w/ different IPs.  I may wind up turning on new device quarantine to see if I can catch that in the act.

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  David Lambert

  • July 22, 2023 02:33

  So, I'm making progress, but now that I've got rules enabled, I'm seeing them take effect about 4 hr earlier than indicated.  The times shown in the UI seem to be correct for my timezone, but when I entered a rule to shut off internet access at 2am, it kicked in at 10pm local.  Am I missing something obvious?

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  David Koppenhofer

  • July 22, 2023 03:50

  Hit the gear in the upper right to go to settings, then About. You can set the box timezone near the bottom of the page.

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  David Lambert

  • July 22, 2023 20:24

  Perfect - thanks.

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