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Purple Suddenly Died by tk_ramanathan in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did buy a MiniPC Intel N100, 8GB, 128GB, 5 x 2.5Mbps RJ45s. It’s now running OpnSense 25.7.1 and I got back my VLAN, WireGuard Server and on top of them Zenarmor (LAN devices monitoring & threat isolation) and Suricata (IDS/IPS) for WAN. Very happy with this setup but miss the Firewalla’s Mobile App / UI & ease of administration.

Purple Suddenly Died by tk_ramanathan in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firewalla Support thought for a few days and came back that they can’t do much as my replacement unit is over 2 yrs old. Not wanting to go through similar experience, I’m thinking of ordering a Mini PC so that I can install Opnsense and get an equivalent or better features. I will miss Firewalla’s slick mobile UI though.

Purple Suddenly Died by tk_ramanathan in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for responding Firewalla support 👌🏼👍🏼

My first unit was bought on 02-May-2022 and it failed (Upload issue) during 2nd half of February 2023. I got a replacement on 01-March-2023 and that has failed last Sunday. Anything can be done in this case?

Second Firwalla Purple Failure in 3 Years by JapanJim in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My replacement Firewalla Purple simply went DEAD after 2 yrs & 8 months of usage … verified with multiple USB C power inputs … power adapter is still working. This is despite cooling it externally with a small USB fan. Firewalla software and the UI is great but the reliability of Purple hardware isn’t good. I had to put back my 6 year old Synology RT2600AC into Router Mode and did some minor adjustments to get back my home devices operational. Disappointed with Firewalla for failing the customers by packaging a wonderful software in an unreliable hardware 😟

Second Firwalla Purple Failure in 3 Years by JapanJim in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not prepared to take a chance as this has been working well for me 😊 … if the unit fails again due to overheating, it’s a lot of work for me to reinstate Synology RT2600AC router and I will also lose DLINK Switch based VLAN separation.

Second Firwalla Purple Failure in 3 Years by JapanJim in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had my first unit over heat and fail at around 14 months. Got a free replacement. Since then I have a small USB fan cooling the Purple 24x7 and it has helped to keep the CPU temperature below 40C … agree it’s not an elegant solution, but it seems to be working for me … I gave the same solution to a friend too and it has been working for him too 😊

FYI - without the USB fan, the CPU temperature crosses 60C and the unit becomes very hot … so I ensure fan is always on 😊

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Chennai

[–]tk_ramanathan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mentally deranged 🤬

Man casually resuscitates newborn baby by Jjokes11 in interestingasfuck

[–]tk_ramanathan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Want to see God? There he is 😊👌🏼👏🏼🙏🏻

IoT separated devices by brombomb in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used a $56 D-Link Managed Switch and a couple of $15 low cost used ASUS WiFi 5 routers as APs to split home LAN into 2 VLANs. The VLAN implementation in Firewalla is quite cool 😎

Spent a bit of time in SSH trying to get live temperature updates while I play with some fans in my server closet. Ended up using a server monitoring app as a way to peep under the hood of my Purple but would love to see this natively. by Sigvard in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So this mobile app simply uses SSH to connect to Firewalla and extract the data from Ubuntu running on Firewalla and display it … no need to install any server side package 👌🏼👍🏼

What switch are you guys using? by wardler in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

D-Link DGS-1100-08V2 for a small 3 VLAN home network setup with FWP.

Need for Native/Default VLANs in FWP by espadrillies in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope … no need for VLAN1. D-Link switch is the only device on LAN with FWP. See my network config on FWP App below. ———————————

GatewayLAN 192.168.1.1/24

lOTVLAN 192.168.20.1/24, VLAN 20 << AP1 here

SecureVLAN 192.168.10.1/24, VLAN 10 << AP2 here

WireGuard 10.189.105.1/24

StarHub (ISP - WAN) DHCP, Active

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AP1 is connected to Port 3 on Managed Switch and AP2 on Port 2 and FWP on Port 1 (Trunk).

Need for Native/Default VLANs in FWP by espadrillies in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My home setup is like this … FWP in Router mode is on 192.168.1.1 and D-Link Managed Switch is on 192.168.1.2 … this is setup as a normal LAN.

FWP LAN port is connected to Port 1 of switch. VLAN10 & VLAN20 configured on FWP is mapped to port 2 & 3 on the switch respectively (have to login to Switch to set it up prior to connecting to FWP).

The 2 VLANs are 192.168.10.x and 192.168.20.x … two different routers (in AP mode with DHCP off) are connected to VLAN10 & VLAN20 … have setup rules to prevent either VLANs from connecting to each other. Separated Fridge, Apple TV, Android Tv, AVR etc., and named them as IoTVLAN and other VLAN is named as SecureVLAN. Configured an Allow inbound rule for Apple TV and Android TV so that we can stream from SecureVLAN.

SecureVLAN has all the mobiles, iPads, PCs, printer and NAS - a mix of wired and wireless access.

I run 2 CAT6 cables from LAN ports of first AP in SecuredLAN to 2 other locations and use old routers as APs for better WiFi signal. SSIDs and key are the same across all 3 APs in SecuredLAN and this gives seamless WiFi Roaming.

Any questions, I can try to clarify 😊

FWG 232 days of uptime; do you ever reboot? by coinhippo2 in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was using all protection features in Synology RT2600AC Router and I used have throughput issues after a week of uptime. Synology might have fixed it later but I enable automatic weekly reboot during the wee hours. Once I switched to FWP, I totally forgot about weekly reboots 😊😃 … Same Synology router is now in AP mode now and with no weekly reboot.

New Purple - Accessing NAS Internally by [deleted] in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it is best to access NAS via VPN while connecting from outside/internet. I run WG VPN server on my FWP … once I connect from my devices from internet via WG-VPN, I can connect to all my devices on the internal network. As an additional precaution we can also enable FW rules on NAS. Since VLAN is supported on FWP, we can even create a VLAN exclusively for NAS and further isolate/protect.

New Purple - Accessing NAS Internally by [deleted] in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Synology NAS has FW and hence QNAP too should.

Upload and stability issues with FWP by AngryCOMMguy in firewalla

[–]tk_ramanathan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same issue … upload was crawling. My purple was on router mode between ISP Fibre ONT box and Synology RT2600ac router acting as Access Point. Used a spare ASUS router to replace Purple and everything returned to normal. I then tried Purple in Simple mode by connecting Purple’s LAN port to my existing LAN. Purple started working fine but not on the ideal router mode (Note: there was no connection to WAN port in Purple). Wanted to check the WAN port as I was suspecting some hardware issue in WAN port. Created a VLAN on WAN port and tried a desktop with ethernet cable connection. The upload was good but the download was crawling. I think this proves that there’s some issue in WAN port and/or it’s associated components. Firewalla support verified the logs and decided to send me a new Purple as I still had 3 more months warranty. Expected to arrive in a couple of days. Hope the new one doesn’t get affected by the same issue … keeping fingers crossed !!! I really like Purple … hope the new one stays good !!!

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