Hi,

I am new here and hopefully this is the correct place to post this... If not please point me to the correct place :)!

I work mostly remotely, and I have a small development environment here, but I also work with several other team members (who are also remote), and occasionally, I need to give them some limited access to some of the machines in my dev environment, e.g., for testing or working sessions.

The networking environment I have consists of a main router that connects to the ISP, and then I have a mesh network and the dev machines are hard wired on the mesh network, and while I was checking the logs in the mesh network, I am seeing occasional connections from outside IP addresses to ports on one of my dev machines, which is hosting a web server.

Unfortunately, neither the ISP (Verizon) router nor the mesh network are able to prevent those connections, so I have tried to block the connections on that web server machine, which is a Windows machine (so using Windows Defender firewall), but I'd really like to incorporate something to my environent that would me allow me to control the access, and I was chatting with one of my colleagues and he suggested that maybe an Omada router might be able to do what I am looking for?

Basically, what I think I need is "some network device" that can do whitelists blocking, based on the remote IP and the destination IP and port.

I am thinking that I could add that device between the ISP router and the mesh network, and then I could configure the blocking rules/whitelists that I need on that device.

I am posting here to inquire if this is something that can be done with any Omada device, and if so can you all recomment which device?

Thanks,

Jim