Can I take the eBlocker to a vacation environment, fare away from my home but Germany, where also a router is available and connect eBlocker to it ?

In other words, during vacation I want to be secured by the eBlocker. At home there is the FritzBox running alone. 

When coming back from vacation eBlocker will be added to home environment soon. 

Are there any issues to do this - or should I follow a special routine for adding eBlocker at vacation location ?

Kind regards Hartmut 

first of all I'm not tech savy, but while testing eBlocker OS 4.03 I'm getting this error message on the VirtualBox VM (see the attached picture): 

" e1000 0000:00:03.0 eth0: NET e1000 0000:00:03.0 eth0: NETDEV WATCHDOG: CPU: transmit queue 0 timed out 5632 ms e1000 0000:00:03.0 eth0: reset eth adapter"

and this keeps on repeating multiple times a day.

Now I read in the Red Hat documentation that this could be because the Linux kernel stopped receiving completed packets from my network interface card (NIC) for too long. Suggestion there is to force a driver reset using ethtool to turn off tx and rx checksum or segmentation offloading. Is this a plausible explanation? And is it possible for me to test that in eBlocker since it is a closed OS? 

Any help is appreciated :-)

About my setup: Function testing is all green except for IP6 which I disabled in the router

• Hardware you use for running eBlockerOS > Intel NUCi7 with Intel PRO/ 1000MT Desktop NIC running as a server in network
• eBlockerOS version as well as filter lists version > 4.03
• eBlocker network mode (auto, individual or expert) > auto
• eBlocker network settings (IP, mask, gateway) > Automatic, IP address 192.168.178.119, Networkmask 255.255.255.0, Gateway 192.168.178.1
• Which devices runs DHCP server? Router/external, eBlocker or client fixed IP? > Router runs DHCP, clients have locked IP's 
• IPv6 disabled for client/network? Disabled in router
• eBlocker DNS firewall settings > eBlocker is DNS Server, forwarding DNS requests is Default
• Client network settings (IP, mask, DNS, gateway) >192.168.178.38
• Whether eBlocker’s https integration is enabled for client > Yes
• Client browser and OS version (i.e. FireFox 80.1 running on macOS 13.4) Win11 24H2, Edge 154.0.4258.53
• Additional non default Blockers enabled? (like DuckDuckGo, Consent-Blocker, custom lists etc.) > No
• HTTPS Auto Trust App enabled? > No
• Exact way or a link / screenshot to reproduce the issue
• If VPN or Tor is enabled for the client in eBlocker (and which VPN provider you are using) >No
• Are automatic updates enabled? > Yes

If you open the settings in the browser with

http://EBLOCKER_IP/

Safari permanently reloads the page while switching the URL. For example, if you are not logged in as admin, it switches between

• /settings/#!/login
• /settings/#!/auth

There are some workarounds to avoid or break the loop:

• Open the settings with HTTPS.
• Hit the ESC key multiple times to break the loop. Then press the browser's reload button.
• Open the dashboard

  http://EBLOCKER_IP/dashboard/

  first, then open the settings clicking on the gear icon in the upper right corner.

Not sure which part of the Topic is relevant. eBlocker works flawlessly for my iMac, iPad and iPhone.

Have an 'Aluminium' MacBook5.1 which i didn't use because it was extremely slow, in spite of a new SSD drive. So i dumped OS X El Capitan, installed Linux Mint and ran into the following.

On all my Apple-devices i use the Vivaldi Browser because (IMHO) it is better than Safari and the latter doesn't sync anymore notwithstanding hours (!) of phone-support by Apple for my iMac. For both Linux and Vivaldi i enclose a screenshot with info.

Now, when trying to install an eBlocker certificate in Vivaldi, i get (see screenshot)

where the button to Import the certificate in the appropriate database is GRYED OUT and i can't use the eBlocker properly for my MacBook (still a very nice and skillfully engineered machine!).

Don't know where/what the problem is; maybe it's me :-( but if somebody could give a hint?

Rob

Thanks for any help

I have been experiencing a problem with the Threema app (iPhone, iOS) for some time now. As a Trusted App, it worked perfectly fine for years. Since one of the latest updates, however, Threema no longer works properly.

When I try to send a message, a “?” now appears in Threema’s message status. If I deactivate eBlocker and send a message, then everything works well It then also starts sending the previously "?"-marked ones. Similarly, messages reception does not work. I receive a notification from iOS when a message is sent to me, but then I do not see any messages within Threema unless I deactivate eBlocker.

Of course I tried to snoop traffic using the manual recording of connections within eBlocker, but there is nothing recorded. I mean the window which shows the connections stays empty.

Long story short: I have no clue what happened to Threema and I cannot trace the issue using the provided functions within eBlocker.

Is there any way to debug that? Does anyone else has the same problems with that app?

Thanks in advance!

When I start my eBlocker on above named Raspi4, the eBlocker kickes away the Fritz!Box and overtakes its place - no Internet any more. If I take my PI400, the eBlocker works fine. The Raspi4 itself with Bullseye works fine but homenet crashes, if it is connected to. As a workaround i connected the raspi4 with a new eBlocker installed by an USB to Ethernet Adapter, but it doesn't work. The same Raspi4 with Bullseye, is connecting immediatly to the Internet. Is it possible to teach eBlocker (for Example by editing a config-File) to use the adapter instead of the build-in Ethernet-connection?

Regards Thomas

Best to all, Rob