Hi,
I’m using XG for a week now on my home network after switching from UTM which I used for 13years. I’m pleasantly surprised how nice XG is, in my case it’s much faster than UTM was but I’m still learning the new logic.
Right now I would like to limit the internet access of my home devices /NAS, Smart TV, Receiver, etc./ to the necessary domains and I’m having problems doing that.
On UTM I used web filtering, with a default block everything filter action, I watched the live log while for example trying the watch a clip on Youtube on my Smart TV and allowed the domains it needed to work.
On XG I tried to achieve the same with firewall rules but for some reason I can’t get it working. I created a rule like this:
Name: Device block
Action: Drop
Source zone: Home Lan
Source devices: Chromecast, Denon X2300, Samsung SmartTv, NAS, etc.
Destination zone: WAN
Destination networks and services: Any
Then I added an exclusion
Source zone: Home Lan
Source devices: Chromecast, Denon X2300, Samsung SmartTv, NAS, etc.
Destination zone: WAN
Destination networks: added the same URLs I used on UTM as FQDN hosts
What happens is that on the TV the Youtube app starts up, I can see the clips, I can browse and search but if I try to watch a video I only receive a black loading screen and nothing happens. Basically, it’s the same if I try to cast a movie from Plex on my Synology NAS to Chromecast /it’s used with a non-smart TV/, I just got a black screen. If I turn the rule off everything works.
I tried the live log on the admin page but it doesn’t seem very live to me, I tried to use Packet capture where I could find some traffic going to the TV but there where no blocks just consumed packets.
What could be the problem here? Is there a way to dig more deeply in the logs? I tried tail on some logs on the advanced shell but found only static entries.
Thanks in advance
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