Alert feature for blocked rules on attempt to access

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Martins

• August 27, 2020 15:07

Hi Firewalla team, as a user of Red, Blue and now Gold Firewalla, I would like to suggest something that probably other parents would be interested too, and I think it's simple for you guys to implement !

As a parent, we have some rules for our kids such as blocking adult content such (porn, guns, violence...), so that way we keep our kids protected from that bad stuff!

So, that said would be nice to have a feature to enable/disable alarms on such rules even if it's blocking those contents, to send us an alarm saying that the device tried to access for example a porn website.

So that way we parents will know that our kids is trying to access such thing, and we can take the properly approach, due if they can't access from our home network, kids are smart and they will eventually figure out how to access it outside our protected network.

What do you guys Firewalla team and parents think about this idea ?

Thank you guys, and keep up the amazing work you're doing there !

Stay safe you all !

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  Martins

  • September 03, 2020 15:03

  Any parent who would like to see this feature on their firewalla ?

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  Andy

  • September 03, 2020 15:48

  +1

  Basically any rule should have a on/off for alerts, as some rules I don't want to know about, but others I do.

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  Martins

  • September 03, 2020 15:50

  @Andy good catch !

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  Rolando Nispiros

  • September 03, 2020 16:27

  My kids are still young, but I'd like to have this feature already there, when 'they' start to get curious.

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  Firewalla

  • September 03, 2020 17:35

  Ack, agree, this is a good feature.   The only issue we have with this is technical in nature;  We are going to lump this together with the feature that does accounting of blocks. 

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  Martins

  • September 03, 2020 17:42

  Maybe by have an switch/checkbox when creating the rules that says "Alert me if the device attempt to access this website/rule" ? 

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  Jef

  • October 16, 2020 21:42

  Perhaps a rule in Report Only, Report Only with alert, Block, Block with alert

  Report only might be for rules that you just want to monitor but not block?

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  Firewalla

  • October 17, 2020 05:15

  I think someone is going to build a recently blocked accesses ... 

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  James Willhoite

  • October 18, 2020 16:18

  This would be nice.

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  Aaron

  • December 11, 2020 19:31
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  Agreed on this one.  There are multiple use-cases.  For example, if I create a rule and not sure what the impact will be, it's best practice to run in monitor/alert before blocking.  Second, as OP said, I'd want the option to know if my child was tripping a rule, whether blocked or allowed.  An alert switch on custom rules would certainly be nice.

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  Aaron

  • December 14, 2020 16:05

  Another reason this would be helpful - We came to discover that the UDP ports used by "Among Us" are not detected as gaming activity by Firewalla, and are unable to add to the category.  In this case, would be great to know when it's being played, but don't necessarily want to block.  Thanks.

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  Firewalla

  • December 14, 2020 18:27

  Good suggestions.

  In 1.972 we will have the ability to log blocked rules, or blocks.   We can evolve this into a "block" and alert, or "trigger" to alert.  Our only problem with this alert part is, it will be too noisy. 

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  Nicholas Gazzillo

  • June 28, 2021 16:23

  Question, "In 1.972 we will have the ability to log blocked rules, or blocks." can we also log custom allow rule use to see whom is using? Or if being used? So can update if not being hit properly, or remove rule if not seen used, etc...

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  Firewalla

  • June 28, 2021 16:29

  The regular flows will show up in the network flow section. (unless I miss understood your question)

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  Laili Agus

  • December 29, 2022 13:55

  Would like to have rule that was said above for Violence, Gun, Religions, racism. Thank you

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  Ben Larkins

  • August 27, 2024 21:00

  For the love of god and everything that is holy...PLEASE enable this feature request.  New user here with the MSP but there's no way I'm going to be able to figure out the API stuff.  Please enable block + alarm!  Kind of sad that this is a 4 year old post.  Please firewalla.... help us parents out!

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