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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 ...
Just got off the phone with a support engineer. He claims since a guest network is a different SSID key they are different networks? I am skeptical since nodes on my guest network are assigned IP's that I have defined on my LAN (10.0.0.2 - 200). I was hoping to have a guest network in the default IP range (192.168...). Has anyone gotten this configured successfully?
Also was told by Level 2 support that the Guest Network is only there as a means to provide guests access to my network and that the guest network cannot be segmented from the LAN.
- Netgear does deploy some L2 isolation for the standard vs. the guest network on these consumer devices. All systems are run from the same DHCP in the same subnet. The isolation can be cobsidered "good enough" for consumer applications. On Orbi Pro a few enhancements have been implemented, ebahxibg the isolation. Still it's not intended to serve dedicated VLAN and dedicated subnetworks and DHCP pools.
Not amused Netgear support engineers are not able to explain this in a few words.
