Add Devices Manually
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Is there any way to add a device manually to the devices list on the Firewalla Gold rather than waiting for them to be discovered?
The reason that this is a pressing problem for me is that I have just installed a new Firewalla Gold at our office and I need to forward some ports to a couple of Layer 7 SSL accelerators/Load Balancers in our internal network which have a number of virtual IP's on them. However, they are not being picked up by the Firewalla Gold and thus are not available for selection when trying to configure Port Forwarding rules.
Without an ability to manually add devices which are difficult to detect, we can't use the firewall appliance at all as having the ability to set up the port forwarding rules is critical.
Regards,
Glenn
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No, the ability to do this is still not implemented through either the Firewalla app or the Web UI, as far as I am aware, and it has been many years since I made the original request.
Apparently, the workaround (which I never tested) is to use scripting to create port forwarding rules to devices, not in the device list.
A great firewall compared to the subscription-loaded bloatware of many of its competitors, but still not feature-complete.
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For me personally being able to manually create a virtual ip address for my homelab with something like kemp load balancing. Then yes it was completed with the following update. Please see the release notes: https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/4554420886163
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Well, it looks like I'll need to eat a little crow on that last post of mine!
I just looked in the app and indeed, it looks like you can add an IP address manually to a Port Forwarding rule, instead of picking from the list of already-discovered devices.
Well done, Firewalla dev team. That is indeed handy. I don't have a need for the feature anymore as I dropped my Load Balancers a year ago, but, this opens up some interesting possibilities for traffic routing.
Case closed.
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I think the original intent of the thread (based on why I posted here and the first post on the thread ) was accomplished in the 1.50 app update so we can now forward ports to an IP that doesn’t exist or show up in the list of devices.
You may need to create a separate post requesting the ability to bypass DHCP to manually add devices etc…
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This request was marked as Completed on 7/14/2022. Creating port forwardings on IP addresses was supported in App 1.50. Please see the release notes: https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/4554420886163
If you are interested in mapping MAC addresses to reserved IPs, or pre-configuring DHCP reservations, please upvote and comment on this existing request: https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/43769407206675-Reserve-IP-for-a-device-by-MAC-address-even-if-never-connectedThis is the best way to get attention from our dev team. Thanks!
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