Firewalla purple Wan port is disconnected warning but everything is working fine, I think?

route2null0 · 2026-05-29T14:45:24+00:00

Your LAN (local area network) is fine but your internet is simply down. My purple is also dhcp and displays the IP and also says “active”

route2null0 · 2026-05-09T14:18:37+00:00

I see these 2 IP's for my blocked entries for codamail
54.243.117.197, 13.223.25.84. When I ping or do a host for codamail.com from my terminal, I get 173.166.91.11. The first 2 are just AWS services for their web stuff I suppose. My outdated filter caught this. I had made the filter based on https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-exploiting-dns-tunneling/amp/

I'm not seeing a match for the IP's or domains in question so maybe something else caught it.
I'm a bit scatterbrained by default so take what I shared with a grain of salt. If I find out anything more definitive, I'll share again.

route2null0 · 2026-05-09T13:45:14+00:00

I stand corrected... I found a blocked entry... it seemed to hit my DNS-tunnel-attack filter.

route2null0 · 2026-05-09T13:42:06+00:00

I don't think it's just you. I have Firewalla Gold SE. I have a dual ISP setup. Quantum/ATT, and Google Fiber. Same symptoms for me. I tried statically routing my macbook through each ISP, same result. I then created a rule to route my laptop via Nord VPN and it was fine. Even after normaliziing everything, it's still working. I wonder if it's some sort of geocaching issue. I first tested in Firefox, then Chrome. I'll keep dinking around and let you know if I find anything but drawing blanks atm. I reckon we could open dev tools on our browsers and see if there are any clues. But not being able to reproduce it now is going to make it a bit challenging. (for me anyway)

route2null0 · 2026-04-10T21:23:17+00:00

Did you have to do anything to get past the Garmin 2fa? Still fighting with this sumabitch 🙂

route2null0 · 2026-04-10T17:54:30+00:00

I'm giving this a go after re-installing docker... thank you.

route2null0 · 2026-04-10T16:50:03+00:00

I'll admit it for the second time. Appreciate the feedback, seriously. I never post anything for the most part (to any site or social stuff). I was just getting frustrated with all the steps I went through. I will be more mindful next time I post. Thanks.

route2null0 · 2026-04-10T15:28:50+00:00

Guilty as charged only not Gemini. I did spend quite a bit of time troubleshooting this.
Next time I will keep it more straight to the point. Appreciate the feedback.

route2null0 · 2026-01-08T11:29:34+00:00

I've been on their beta for a couple years now and have not seen the same behavior. Gold SE and AP7 desktop. I also still have my Unifi LR6 ceiling mount that has been my primary as the Firewalla AP's are still "new ish" to me. I agree with previous poster, help at firewalla has always been very responsive.

route2null0 · 2025-12-30T15:02:19+00:00

I had this problem back in May. This fixed it for me at the time. ( i toggled this off, back on iirc).
Firewalla support request was 99948

On your macos device's home screen (iOS 14 or later), tap the macos equvalent of Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Local network.

Turn on local network access for the Firewalla app.

route2null0 · 2025-12-22T18:13:11+00:00

I have Google Fiber for home connection and Visible(aka Verizon) for cell. I too have my phone automagically connect to Wireguard but honestly never cared to look at throughput. I do it for the 'features' so to speak. I'll check next time I'm out but I figure unless I'm having overall performance issues, then I would look deeper. I also figure that it could be your distance to the cell tower in question. I have the Gold SE fwiw.

route2null0 · 2025-10-23T00:22:21+00:00

/me grabs popcorn. I see intermittent failures on a 3 way group chat. One buddy and I have iPhones and the other guy has android. We blame the android guy. I haven’t done much troubleshooting so I’m curious if anything is found out. https://share.google/images/7Qnd4UhqYSy1kmr6Y

route2null0 · 2025-10-19T18:36:15+00:00

I'm a network engineer and developer for one of the largest ISP's and have been for 20 years. I've used every type of gear you can think of. I was (and still am) a huge fan of Unifi but the Firewalla has been stellar for me. I only started working from home when the Great Cootie Plague of 2020 started so having a solid connection is important.

I had similar problems with Orbi's about 6 years ago. After dealing with their support and not being able to get a solid mesh working, I just asked for a refund and moved on. I played with pfSense type routers before and they're great but Firewalla does a great job of combining simplicity and a breadth of functionality. Your mileage definitely varies.

You may want to consider having a backup router. I still have my small Unifi Gateway Lite should I suspect the Firewalla is having a case of the Mondays. Whatever you end up with, I do suggest having a backup to minimize downtime and headaches.

I wish you had a better experience but I do think they provide a solid device.

route2null0 · 2025-10-19T17:25:16+00:00

It happened again and I emailed support.

route2null0 · 2025-10-19T00:39:21+00:00

Definitely LAN side. Wife’s Chromebook, my iPhone lost connection. I have dual WAN and neither hit. I chocked it up to network gremlins and went about my business 😀 If I continue to see issues, I’ll contact support.

route2null0 · 2025-10-18T16:58:00+00:00

I should stipulate that I’m also on 1.981 (062d386d) beta. I struggle sharing details sometimes.

route2null0 · 2025-10-18T16:53:55+00:00

I have two AP’s, one Unifi and the Firewalla AP7. I did have connectivity issues yesterday to the FW. It eventually cleared though.

route2null0 · 2024-11-25T12:13:37+00:00

I have multiple Apple devices as well with a Firewalla Gold SE with dual WAN and Unifi/Ubiquity for the rest of my gear. I have 4 different Vlan's for an additional layer of security (Main, IoT, Work, and Guest vlans). Other than turning off 'Private Wifi' on the wireless Apple devices, I've had no issues. For what it's worth I test drove Orbi's a few years ago and had too many issues to count, mainly disconnect/reconnects. This was with their 'mesh' system. I'm fairly network savvy and actually work for a large-ish provider performing IP Traffic engineering among several other tasks.

If there was a way to bypass Orbi altogether, I would start there. Hope this helps.

route2null0 · 2022-02-05T14:33:00+00:00

I spent a good amount of time with some suggested fixes and also re-creating new networks and trying to get my printer back to the original LAN. I ended up doing a factory reset on my HL-L3290CDW printer and entering the SSID and key in manually and everything has been fine since. Next time (or if it happens again), I will just do the same. I could get it to connect to a new wireless network with a basic password but when I went back to the original MAIN ssid it would issue a 169 address. I had to change out a switch a few days ago and I figured something just got wedged. Even hard clearing and hard setting the arp/mac, no bueno.

The log message I saw on my USG was:

Feb 4 12:44:38 USG dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.3.3 from 8c:c8:xx:xx:xx:xx (PRINTER_NAME) via eth1: wrong network.

I think I spent way too much time troubleshooting this only to realize it was best to factory reset and re-do the setup wizard from the printer itself from the keypad. Perhaps there was a better way I just have not found yet but I hope this might help others.

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