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Bridge group to isolate traffic
I have an Orbi RBK50 router with 2 satellite, and I also have a 2nd non-Orbi wifi router. I wanted to isolate the network traffice of my IoT devices from my laptops/phones. I put the IoT devices on t...
What about attaching the IoT devices to the Orbi guest network and not letting guests see the regular network?
CrimpOn wrote:
What about attaching the IoT devices to the Orbi guest network and not letting guests see the regular network?
I enabled the Orbi guest network and tried several of my network scanners. They see the laptop I was scanning from, but nothing else. I tried http and telnet to the Orbi router and satellite. Both timed out. One interesting phenomenon: one scanner filled up the ARP table with MAC addresses for most of the devices attached to the Orbi. I checked several times. (Delete Arp cache. Display cache - all gone. Run scanner. Display cache - they're back.) There is probably a good reason why Arp needs to be enabled on the Guest network (to talk to the router or satellite, perhaps?) It could be a lot of trouble for the Orbi to keep a table of "show Guests the Arp entry for these IP's,, but not any others. Actually, a simple table might not work if devices on the Guest network are allowed to see other devices on Guest.
Anyway, I have exhausted my skills about how to get at the Orbi network from the Guest Wi-Fi. Seems pretty secure to me.