Access Control – "stateful" instructions needed for ER605 after updating to v1.3.0 firmware
Access Control – "stateful" instructions needed for ER605 after updating to v1.3.0 firmware
With the new firmware (v1.3.0) TP-Link added a new feature, Stateful ACL in Firewall -> Access Control. (I'm using Standalone mode)
I upgraded my ER605 router maintaining my previously used configuration. It has had no issue regarding this but yesterday I wanted to test something and therefore I needed to change one ACL rule. Then I realized that I couldn't make changes. All I wanted was to change the effective time (from Any to Night).
When pressing OK it points me to an alert to define States and change it from "---" to checkmark one or more of that four options.
I had no idea what to do but when I tried to mark just New, it still didn't let me save the changes.
Later I checked an emulator on TP-Link's website and saw that whenever you create a new rule (which I didn't attempt to do), at the moment of choosing either Block or Allow, it automatically sets either 3 or all 4 states marked.
As I say, I have no clue how it actually works, so I would not mess with it if not necessary but the fact that the update* doesn't present the rules correctly, concerns me.
*I can't verify if the State field remained with "---" or the update process did the job right and the problem happened only because after a reset I restored the config (that had been saved in previous fw version). Unfortunately I did not backup the config after updating to the new firmware, my bad...
My question is, what to do now? Should I leave everything as it is? Should I change the States field in all the rules from "---"?
And if so, what to checkmark? Or simply should I just change the Policy first (back and forth), so it automatically sets the right form for States?
If I had more spare time, I could also try downgrading the router to previous fw, restoring that same config (backed up on previous fw), updating to the new firmware and see what is set for States.
Or if anyone could check this in their router for me, please?
Is there any instruction guide for this new feature somewhere? I haven't found any yet.
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Just an update report:
At least the last two official firmware versions (1.3.0 and 1.2.3) have a bug that prevents the administrator from creating or editing ACL rules.
I'll start a new thread about it.
But I want to emphasize that this is not a feature request for an EOL product, this is a bug report!
Btw, after testing a bit, this Stateful ACL rule feature seems just a mimick on this product! It doesn't matter if you have it set or leave the "---" in States field. It does not make any difference at all!
That's why I requested to see any demonstration video or just a community post with examples, where does this feature work and how because no sense so far.
Yet another bug that bothers me from the very beginning of the life of this EOL product. In VLAN list there is an ID number for each line but there isn't any way to define the ID of these VLANs and the bug is that it messes the order for no logical reason, no matter how carefully create the VLANs in your desired order.
The product became EOL before this simply bug would have been fixed. And I wouldn't be surprised if the not-yet-EOL verson of this product also suffers from this issue.
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