[blue] how to allow external VPN connections when family protect is turned on?

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Foo Bar Geez

• January 28, 2019 01:49
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Hello,

I have a business requirement to run a VPN client connecting to the outside world on one of my computers, which is currently blocked by "family protect".  How do I create a rule to allow VPN connections from my network to a given IP address (turning off "family protect" while making VPN connection and turn it back on once connected isn't a feasible option).

Thanks!

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  Firewalla

  • January 28, 2019 19:32

  You can manually do this today.  And we are working on a per-device family mode.  Hopefully this will solve your problem.  There is no ETA on this, since we are pretty busy shipping blue and make sure it is stable before we add more features.  

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  Foo Bar Geez

  • January 28, 2019 23:03

  Per-device family mode sounds great!

  > You can manually do this today

  Do you mean by turning off, make VPN and turn it back on?  Or do you mean by manually creating a firewall rule?  If the latter, can you please send me the steps?

  Thanks!

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  Firewalla

  • January 28, 2019 23:16

  There are couple ways to do it

  1. When you VPN, just turn off monitoring on the device that's doing the VPN.  This should bypass firewalla

  2. Or you can turn off family mode, do vpn, and then turn it on. 

   

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