Network port Schedule and Outbound firewall rules

[David CHEVALIER]

Hello,

I would love to be able to add a schedule to network ports through the Web admin :

For now I'm able to do it by CLI like that :

interface GigabitEthernet0/1
schedule schedule1

 

Plus, I'd love to see firewall outbound rules through Web Admin, not only CLI. 

Is there a chance you could achieve that any time soon?

[eralde]

11 hours ago, David CHEVALIER said:

Hello,

I would love to be able to add a schedule to network ports through the Web admin :

For now I'm able to do it by CLI like that :

interface GigabitEthernet0/1
schedule schedule1

 

Plus, I'd love to see firewall outbound rules through Web Admin, not only CLI. 

Is there a chance you could achieve that any time soon?

@David CHEVALIER Hi, could you elaborate on why do you want to assign schedules to the network ports?

[David CHEVALIER]

13 hours ago, eralde said:

@David CHEVALIER Hi, could you elaborate on why do you want to assign schedules to the network ports?

We use external WiFi APs throughout our campus with a guest SSID named Public-Internet. Those APs are on a dedicated VLAN, untagged on port 2 (Guest network) of the Keenetic so we can differentiate it from the Home network.
When the campus is closed, we want to avoid people from using our Wifi and Internet connection. They usually can reach the Wifi signal from the street.

Since hour APs can't do schedules as we want to, I created a schedule on the Keenetic that will allow using our Wifi on specific hours only.

The way it is designed by Keenetic would allow me to use the schedule on the internal Wifi of the router, but not on a specific port, nor outbound firewall rules (at least not from the WebGUI  ).

I hope I make myself clear

[eralde]

14 hours ago, David CHEVALIER said:

We use external WiFi APs throughout our campus with a guest SSID named Public-Internet. Those APs are on a dedicated VLAN, untagged on port 2 (Guest network) of the Keenetic so we can differentiate it from the Home network.
When the campus is closed, we want to avoid people from using our Wifi and Internet connection. They usually can reach the Wifi signal from the street.

Since hour APs can't do schedules as we want to, I created a schedule on the Keenetic that will allow using our Wifi on specific hours only.

The way it is designed by Keenetic would allow me to use the schedule on the internal Wifi of the router, but not on a specific port

Thank you for the explanation @David CHEVALIER 🙂

So far, I can't really remember any similar requests. Scheduling port shutdowns is a smart solution for your setup 💪

Generally speaking, in a similar setup it would be easier to just use a few Keenetic APs + the central Keenetic router. If you unite them into a Mesh Wi-Fi system, the central router (“controller”) will be able to distribute its settings to access points, including the Wi-Fi schedule.

14 hours ago, David CHEVALIER said:

nor outbound firewall rules (at least not from the WebGUI  )

We get requests to add that feature from time to time. It may be implemented in one of the future releases.

 

On a related note, our router provides a REST API that you can use to control it with a bit of scripting. This way you can create your custom small UI containing all the features you want. If you are interested in that, I can provide more details.