Limit of 32 Firewall rules?

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Limit of 32 Firewall rules?
Limit of 32 Firewall rules?
2013-05-13 19:50:20 - last edited 2021-08-21 03:23:18
Region : Germany

Model : TL-ER6020

Hardware Version : V1

Firmware Version :

ISP :


Hi,

I just spoke to support who confirmed this, but maybe someone else knows a workaround... I'm trying to configure Access Rules based on a Whitelist of allowed IP ranges. This is fine - in theory. Unfortunately, once you hit a number of 32 access rules, the ER6020 will refuse to add more. 32 is hardly a large number (and, for example, it _does_ accept more than 32 URL filtering rules, which I'd imagine is far more processor intensive). This feels like a bug in the firmware. Does anyone know a fix for this? As it stands, this is basically making the firewall completely useless for us (and thus, the entire router).

Michael
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Re:Limit of 32 Firewall rules?
2013-05-15 11:06:30 - last edited 2021-08-21 03:23:18
maybe there are a limitaion on the software or hardware resource, how did you use it? i mean if the whitelist can complete it, whether we can try to use blacklist to achieve it.
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Re:Limit of 32 Firewall rules?
2013-05-15 18:28:13 - last edited 2021-08-21 03:23:18
Let me give you an example: Amazon AWS IP ranges: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1701

How would one go and allow (or disallow) these specific ranges with 32 rules. It can not be done.

Thus, the firewall, as it is, is useless.
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2013-05-17 09:41:30 - last edited 2021-08-21 03:23:18
too many IP addresses :( , in this case, how about URL filter ??..
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Re:Limit of 32 Firewall rules?
2013-06-03 23:12:36 - last edited 2021-08-21 03:23:18
I am seeing the same limit - but in the Virtual Server section - seems very low to only be able to assign 32 different port forwards to servers/devices...given the size of this router. Anyone else see this??
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