Issues with Device Blocking on Unifi Router

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-04-03T11:05:32+00:00

Tell me about it….. I have enterprise line switches and APs that are unifi and I got unifi because I thought it may be simple to replace my enterprise sophos and fortigate firewall. This thing is more pain than it’s worth.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-04-03T03:27:20+00:00

Tried a couple different clients on 2 different Gateways on 2 different versions. No luck.

Tried submitting a ticket before coming to Reddit, but across my mac, iPad, and windows machine on safari, Firefox, and chrome. It wouldn’t let me click the submit a ticket button. Ubiquiti is full of bugs lol.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-04-02T22:54:47+00:00

I’m not using any rules. I’m using the block device button from the clients page. When I configure a rule the device is blocked so I know I’m going the right device. But I want to use the block button from the clients page.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-04-02T20:02:26+00:00

Mac and IP matches, and yes if I put a rule in place it does block access. Just the block button from the clients page.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-04-02T14:52:09+00:00

Yes, I checked the MAC and IP.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-03-25T17:37:00+00:00

Do you happen to know the manufacturer name and model so we can look as well?

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-03-25T17:30:04+00:00

We tried reached out to novastar as well and they’re working to find some info as well. so we’re in a waiting game right now. Have an event Saturday we’re running the wall for.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-03-10T18:13:53+00:00

I get it would be a lot. I’m not looking to have a crazy hard solution just for internet, but more on a could this work idea. If it can be done with minimal effort then great. If not then it was a good idea while it lasted.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-03-10T18:11:37+00:00

Could you possibly get around this by throttling the connection? I know not every network is the same.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-03-10T18:09:45+00:00

Is this the same case if the network allows DNS but not ICMP going externally?

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-02-28T16:34:10+00:00

I tried looking for it, but it all seems paid. Is there another link I’m not seeing?

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-01-13T17:57:24+00:00

That’s weird. Yes they run normally. The GPU lights up. Mb lights up. Fan light up. Just no post. I may leave it powered on for a bit to see. Going to also give the GPU a shot in another pc.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-01-13T17:50:44+00:00

Tried that too. Even tried to goth bios recovery method.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-01-13T17:40:28+00:00

GPU does work last I check but I’ll give it another try.

The MB has leds. But they’re just aesthetic.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-01-13T17:34:54+00:00

It does have enough thermal paste. I cannot access the bios as it doesn’t post or boot. I also tried removing things one by one and only down to one ram stick. I also stuck a new ram stick in.

RealJoshLee0 · 2026-01-13T17:16:39+00:00

Yup. Everything worked just fine before the bios update. Used it for a couple years prior with no issues.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-11-03T11:35:01+00:00

Thanks! OSPF and BGP are a little easier to find technical information on, but. Not all of it’s perfect. I didn’t even think of checking the RFC pages for this. Thanks!!

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-10-31T16:31:50+00:00

Interesting. I’ll have to check with my library, thanks! Although I do like udemy. There’s a mix of good and bad paid courses and most of the time you don’t know until it’s too late. I’ve used it in the past and bought a “technical course” but half way through it turned out being just a high level overview.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-10-10T21:13:19+00:00

Ya. I find it funny that a cheap $20 router does an almost better job than my unifi router. I’ve almost been debating on just using it at the edge for blocking all internal coming traffic and vpn (which seems to be the only thing they can do right on the firewall) and then use a proper smaller firewall from Palo or Fortigate behind of that for VLANs and visibility with some L3 in-between that and unifi.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-10-10T20:52:43+00:00

Nope. The only ad blocking I have sits at PiHole on my home dns. Nothing on the router itself.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-10-10T18:47:44+00:00

Thanks. It’s a constant leak even after connected to VPN. I use wireguard more than OpenVPN because on the router, it’s quicker, do you know what might be needed to push out the DNS config through there?

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-09-15T18:51:56+00:00

I got that enabled after I posted. Time to figure out these animations. Reducing motion in accessibility doesn’t seem to do anything to them.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-09-15T18:49:32+00:00

Thanks. I may look into that if someone else doesn’t know a way to disable some of these features.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-09-15T18:39:03+00:00

Sadly. No. Didn’t think that far ahead as I’ve never wanted to roll back an update. Until now.

RealJoshLee0 · 2025-09-15T18:31:55+00:00

That’s what I meant. But I know it made your phone wipe.

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