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fsubob
Jan 28, 2018Aspirant
Orbi - Isolate Guest Network & Tagged Uplink
Hello, I realize this isn't officially supported but I've made some progress and was hoping someone might know the configuration element I am missing. I mostly need help with identifying the naming ...
fsubob
Jan 28, 2018Aspirant
Bottom line: I can't confirm that vlan tagging is enabled at the kernel level.
I have been able to correct a few other mistakes and figure a few things out.
brctl show br1
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
br1 8000.8c3bad2bbfd8 no ath02
ath11
eth0.1003
eth1.1003ath02 and ath11 are the guest network logical interfaces. Eth0 appears to be the WAN port and eth1 is the LAN port. I was able to create these units off eth0/1 with vlan tag 1003. The isolation part of my requirement seems to work.
Create:
ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1003 type vlan id 1003
Verify:
ip -d link show eth0.1003
33: eth0.1003@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master br1 state UP mode DEFAULT link/ether 8c:3b:ad:2b:bf:d9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff vlan id 1003 <REORDER_HDR>
When my wifi client connects, I can see the client's mac address in the correct isolated bridge domain. That's good news.
brctl showmacs br1 port no mac addr is local? ageing timer 4 8c:3b:ad:2b:bf:d8 yes 0.00 3 8c:3b:ad:2b:bf:d9 yes 0.00 2 92:3b:ad:2b:bf:da yes 0.00 1 98:01:a7:XX:XX:XX no 28.13 1 9a:3b:ad:2b:bf:d8 yes 0.00
However, I don't think my DHCP requests are being passed out eth0 as expected. Also, for some reason WPA security does not work either.
Checking if tagging is enabled at the kernel level:
root@RBR50:/# lsmod | grep 8021q root@RBR50:/# root@RBR50:/# modprobe 8021q kmod: failed to find a module named 8021q
- fsubobJun 10, 2018Aspirant
Does anyone know if Netgear finally fixed this?
Apple's Airport system has been doing this for years and now with it discontinued I can't find any mesh systems that support true guest isolation.
I don't necessarily need the uplink port to support tagging but at least true isolation within the WLAN network would work - with differnet IP subnets. Not the filtering they do today that doesn't even filter arp and broadcast/multicast packets (from what I've read).
- DarrenMJun 11, 2018Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
Yes we have a new firmware with guest isolation fixes you can find it here.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-firmware-update-v2-1-4-16-availability/td-p/1584969
DarrenM
- fsubobJun 11, 2018Aspirant
Thanks. Is this just the bug fix referenced in the release notes?
I'm really hoping for true isolation - different IP subnets and true L2 isolation internally (not filtering).