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Guest isolation not supported in AP mode?
The good news: Guest access works. The bad news: You can't do guest isolation in AP mode, apparently - the option is greyed out. That makes it rather useless, unfortunately - why is this? ...
This is not unique to the Orbi. An AP has no way of isolating guest traffic on your internal network. It would have to do something like put it in a VLAN to send to the router but the router would also have to support VLANs.
have to agree here , the device would not really be working in AP mode if it where handling router features
I used to think so as well - except eero got this right. In AP mode, they use iptables to block any packets that aren't destined to TCP/UDP port 53 or DHCP broadcast to any local CIDR, based on eero's own IP addresses (v4 and v6). It's quite clever and works very well.
Rodney
Ok, I see how that could work. Thanks for pointing it out.