Red Box Firewall

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The Red Box contains a very simple to use firewall mechanism, which can assist to control your computer (or phone/tablet) and control the background data usage which frequently happens without the owners knowledge (or spend), eg Windows Updates, Antivirus scanner updates, Skype background activity, etc.

The firewall (version 1.15 onwards) is shipped with 6 default rules:

1) Unrestricted / No acceleration
Allow anything outbound, ie no restriction, but also no automatic email compression
2) Only teleport-mail
Only compressed teleport-it email is allowed out, ie gmail/yahoo are blocked. This makes it fast to lock down the computer to only compressed email, and disable your office or other email. Email is automatically compressed.
3) Only teleport-it Mail/Web-Proxy & Weather Apps
Only compressed teleport-it email and compressed teleport-proxy web browsing. You need this firewall setting to access the Certus portal page. This allows precise "per app" control over who can use the internet, this should allow browsing, but prevent Windows/Virus updates. See the teleport-proxy instructions. Additionally we have added direct download ability to several popular weather apps (see full list below)
4) Only teleport-it Mail/Web-Proxy & Weather/Chat Apps
As above, but additionally allow a select list of social messaging "chat" apps and also direct fetch from some weather apps (see full list below)
5) Only teleport-it Mail/Web-Proxy & Weather/Chat/Social-Media Apps
As above, but additionally allow a select list of social media services (Facebook, etc) (see full list below). Beware that these services often use *a lot* of data
6) Generic Mail (only mail)
Allow ALL email, but ONLY email. This complements configuration 2) by unblocking general POP, IMAP & SMTP ports (note that it does NOT unblock non standard email apps with custom clients, eg Hotmail, Gmail). Teleport-it mail is still automatically compressed in this mode.

The list of supported chat apps is as follows (as of writing):

  • Whatsapp
  • Signal
  • Telegram
  • Wickr
  • Wire
  • WeChat
  • Zoom

List of supported weather apps is:

  • Raymarine's Navigation screen Theyr integration
  • LuckGrib
  • PredictWind
  • Seaman Pro
  • Squid
  • Windy.tv
  • Xygrib (& Zygrib)

List of social media network apps is:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin
  • TikTok