Hi All,
I have been setting up 'Turn-The-Kids-Internet-off' rules on my 2860.
After much experimentation, I can now control all 9 devices (phones, laptops, XBoxes) individually. Haha! The power!

However, in the process, I found that the only thing that would work are OUTBOUND filters (ie LAN/DMZ/RT/VPN -> WAN).
I could just not get ANY INBOUND (data) filters to work at all. Even Source = Any, Destination = Any, Service = Any, Block Immediately had no discernible effect on any traffic at all.
Am I missing something as far as incoming filters are concerned?


Thanks

Still trying to figure out why this is happing - any suggestions?

Why do you need inbound too? i.e. if they can't send out to request data,
it ain't coming back

Questioning a customer why he/she wants to do something is not a respectful response or defence to a (major) feature that doesn't work. The fault itself needs to be addressed. Outbound filters also don't do the job properly. If a user starts a session during 'allowed' time, that session will continue long after the filter kicks in at the scheduled time to supposedly block communication. For instance, a Minecraft session will continue uninterrupted when a block rule kicks in (the "Clear sessions when schedule on" setting makes no difference).