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Follower

Jan 21, 2021

Circle cannot effectively block VPN service.

The Circle software cannot effectively blcok the VPN service after I set "VPN & Proxies" not allowed. My kid still can use VPN to play games or visiting game sites.

Christian_R

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jan 26, 2021

Hello Netbbq,

I would recommend checking the article below for more info on limiting access to VPNs and proxies.

https://support.meetcircle.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001381931-Stopping-Bypass-and-Evasion-Issues-Virtual-Private-Networks-and-Proxies-Uncategorized-Traffic-Etc-#:~:text=Limit%20access%20to%20VPNs%20and%20proxies&text=Fortunately%2C%20Circle%20is%20equipped%20with,see%20your%20network%20activity%20properly.

Regards,

Christian

chivolet

Aspirant

Feb 01, 2021

Christian_R

Hi Christian,

I have reached out to Brightcloud to have them add or change their categories and a lot of the time they refuse stating it is classified correctly which is why Circle a lot of the time won't work.

I do have an additional question on this. If I go into my RBR50 Orbi router under block services, and select your defaults of VPN-IPSEC, VPN-L2TP, VPN-PPTP, IPsec, and then add some addition ones such as tcp/udp ports 1194 that should prevent any VPN from being established but it does not. Is this a known issue that the option is there but it doesn't work? I am on version V2.5.2.4

Thanks in advance,