Hi,
I admit I haven't read ALL the tons of available material here on what great things are to be expected from version 9, but maybe someone already deep in beta testing can easily answer whether there are some features I am missing (major usecase: parental control at home ;-) in V8.3. Some things work today just fine, but are tedious to maintain.
Are "helpers" similar to these on the radar?
Thanks, habitoti
I admit I haven't read ALL the tons of available material here on what great things are to be expected from version 9, but maybe someone already deep in beta testing can easily answer whether there are some features I am missing (major usecase: parental control at home ;-) in V8.3. Some things work today just fine, but are tedious to maintain.
- Timespan groups (and wrap-around timespans, but I think I saw that this is available now...)
- Create users from statically assigned IPs (and group of IPs, so the same user might come in with three different devices)
- Optionally resolve internally known IPs, at least in Live-Logs
- Easier scheduling of complete traffic blocking (combine Firewall and Webfilter in one easy matrix [weekday x timeOfDay]. Matrix with 30min slots red/green easily clickable. This could be just a wizard on top and resolve to appropriate firewall and webfilter rules, but doing this today for two kids and different schedules on weekdays and weekends is a pain, and you easily lose track of what semantics are finally behind all these rules that were once carefully assembled). This doesn't need to be any more fine-grained than allow/block all.
- Time-Quotas, also based on group usage (devices a,b and c together may have traffic for at most 4h a day). This is not easy, I know, and needs some assumptions like "5min no traffic of type x, y, z = stop timing". And you need to be able to exclude some protocols, like Dropbox polling and others.
- Lookup of MAC addresses by an underlying link that resolves to e.g. pointing to hwaddress.com with MAC as parameter (nice feature e.g. in DD-WRT router firmware, makes it easier to identify devices that got their address through DHCP and don't provide a proper hostname -- sometimes it is enough to see that it is an unknow "Samsung" device etc. to get on the right trail to find it)
Are "helpers" similar to these on the radar?
Thanks, habitoti