Tutorial: how to manage your freebox safety from your Android application

During a recent Update of the Freebox Delta Server, Revolution and Mini 4K, Free offered a new computer security tool: the Firewallipv6.It is now possible to manage this firewall from the Freebox mobile application on Android.

If during the update, it was not possible to activate or deactivate this firewall only from Freebox OS (see the Tutorial of Univers Freebox here), at a time when we write these lines, only beta-Sroid version of the Freebox application can manage this feature directly from their smartphone.If you want to join the beta-test program, you can find our tutorial by clicking on this link.

Since this year, Free has announced that IPv6 is doomed to replace the IPV4 on Freebox.It was notably clearly visible to an update server deployed by the operator quirendait the native ipv6.To explain simply: the IPV4 made pass requests from external servers by the Freebox before they were to be to one of the device connected to its network (smartphone, PC, tablet ...) by making their internal IP address invisible.The ipv6supprime this intermediary by allowing each connected device deposer its own IP address and therefore to receive thesereques directly.

The firewall is therefore present to act as a filteret avoid a surplus of requests from a server but above all avoid the requests of unknown servers.It is useful since, unlike the IPV4 where the devices connected to the network were locked, in IPv6 smartphones or connected PCs are visible.It is a safety tool to avoid a DDOS parexemple attack or the exploitation of a safety flaw (among othersur a connected object like a camera).

How to activate the firewall from the Freebox application?

First, check that your server is on its version 4.0.6 (or more), if not, restart your server to benefit from the update.Once done, go to the "Server" tab of your Freebox application.

Unroll the side menu by clicking on the icon at the top left of your screen, then select "Settings".

Once inside, you will find the mention "IPv6".Click on it to access the configuration concerning the firewall.Then you just have to check or uncheck the option according to your desire to use the firewall.The operation can be carried out at any time.