Restriction settings not working/flaky results
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 1:30 pm
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?
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?
