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anschmid
Feb 03, 2017Apprentice
CAUTION: Orbi's Wifi Guest Network does not really isolate guests from main network
I was just playing around around with the Guest Network in Orbi and made a rather disturbing discovery that guest clients don't seem to be separated totally from the main network, in fact can access ...
anschmid
Feb 03, 2017Apprentice
Yep I do think I am in Router mode: according to this:
And as I said I did un-tick the box to allow the Guest Network access as seen here:
Yet connected to the Guest Wifi Network I can print on my printer (via Airprint) and can access my file server which are both hardwired into the Orbi. I cannot ping them or access them via HTTP browser but I can see them via Bonjour (mDNS) advertising in my Finder sidebar and connect to them by clicking on them.