looking for wireless router with firewall that can block/allow IP addresses or URLs

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Title says what I need help with. The typical consumer-priced wireless router from say Netgear doesn't do this.

Recommendations for/against would be appreciated.
 
Hmm, my Asus RT-N66 does URL/Keyword blocking:

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The only thing is that they normally won't support filtering with HTTPS because they won't do MITM; or support SNI.
 
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Cmustang87 said:
Hmm, my Asus RT-N66 does URL/Keyword blocking:

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The only thing is that they normally won't support filtering with HTTPS because they won't do MITM; or support SNI.
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Sounds good. Can you filter on incoming or outgoing only?
 
Uhm... you only access URLs outgoing also, anything that apparenly uses gzip (quite a lot of sites) doesn't work according to Asus's disclaimer.
 
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Inbound filtering would happen by your firewall, such as NAT/access rules...that's not really a web filtering concern. I guess I don't see a use-case scenario where you block inbound URLs...??
 
Cmustang87 said:
@x509:

Inbound filtering would happen by your firewall, such as NAT/access rules...that's not really a web filtering concern. I guess I don't see a use-case scenario where you block inbound URLs...??
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@Cmustang87. You are right, :eek: and shame on me, an old networking guy, :rolleyes: for getting this one wrong. I would like to be able to blacklist IP addresses or address ranges.
 
As others said, anything that runs openwrt will do it. If you want something a little fancier check out pfsense with pfBlockerNG

Another very affordable option is the ubiquiti edgerouter lite, although I don't know if this can be done in it's gui (if that matters to you).
 
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