Toggle external access for some devices

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caramba
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Toggle external access for some devices

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Hi.

I'd like to enable or disable external (WAN) access for some devices, while letting them access the LAN. Is there a plugin
or something like that with a "push-button" method from the web UI ?

Thanks.

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Re: Toggle external access for some devices

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Firewall -> Restrictions
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caramba
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Re: Toggle external access for some devices

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shame
on
me

I've already set up several ones and I don't understand why I didn't figure that out :(

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Re: Toggle external access for some devices

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Easy to overlook what's right under your nose :)
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caramba
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Re: Toggle external access for some devices

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Maybe I'm growing old but this kind of stuff happens more and more recently.

On the same line, is there a CLI command I could use to toggle these access ?

I need an easy way for my wife to allow/disallow internet access for my children devices. So I plan to have her click on a termux widget on her phone that does :

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ssh -t myrouter command-toggle-access <device>

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Re: Toggle external access for some devices

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You'll need to find the rule number in /etc/config/firewall. They should start with "rule_".

There is an "enable" flag which is set to 0 or 1 which you can toggle using

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uci set firewall.rulesection.enable = 1
Once you've done that you need to issue an

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sh /usr/lib/gargoyle/restart_firewall.sh
This will cause a momentary loss in connectivity while everything fires up again.
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caramba
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Re: Toggle external access for some devices

Post by caramba »

Thanks a lot !

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