Restriction settings not working/flaky results

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elyograg
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Restriction settings not working/flaky results

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First of all thanks to all the people who have put so much effort into making this project happen, it has so much potential.

Having said that, it's been a very frustrating experience so far. I am a newbie to Gargoyle but I have an IT background (which I guess most people here have) so all this is not new to me. I researched a router that was proven to work and bought a TP-Link TL-WR841N/ND v10. I am running Gargoyle v1.9.1

Since installing I have tried a lot of Googling but have not found a solution to my issues. For now, though, the main problem I have is that the one reason I went down the Gargoyle route doesn't work - restrictions. I have set up simple restrictions for my own device to be able to test the system. I have blocked all networks access all day for a device by MAC address. This didn't work. I then flushed the router again and found that the restriction was working. I then tried to assign a static IP to my device which didn't work and also broke the restrictions on my device. I flushed the router again and once again the simple restrictions worked. I didn't touch anything more and added a second device. The new restrictions didn't work and also the old ones stopped working. I went through this twice with the same disappointing result. This is where I stopped and registered (after much frustration) with this forum, having spent most of a day with this.

Can someone enlighten me why I might have these issues? Is the web interface flaky and do I need to use the command line instead? And if so, where can I find some documentation for that?

ispyisail
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Re: Restriction settings not working/flaky results

Post by ispyisail »

4 Meg router?

4 Meg routers are end of life with gargoyle

elyograg
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Re: Restriction settings not working/flaky results

Post by elyograg »

darn, I thought if it was running it would be fine and I was going by people who reported successfully flashing this model on the forum. Would it help to download a previous version of Gargoyle do you think? Requirements are quite basic really?

Lantis
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Re: Restriction settings not working/flaky results

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Go back to 1.6.2.
Although support for the V10 wasn't added back then so... :|
http://lantisproject.com/downloads/gargoyle_ispyisail.php for the latest releases
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elyograg
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Re: Restriction settings not working/flaky results

Post by elyograg »

Thank you for your advice. Oh dear, so it's a no go? Or do you think I can try it? Have been looking to download older versions but couldn't find anything obvious, where would I find it?

ispyisail
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Re: Restriction settings not working/flaky results

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V10 wasn't added back then so... :|
out of luck

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