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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 ...
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).
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
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).
DarrenM wrote:
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
Darren,
Are you sure? From what we could tell, the fix in build 16 was allowing devices on the guest network to reach resources on the primary network when isolation _isn't_ enabled.
Pretty deep testing suggests there's been no improvement in actual guest isolation for many builds now.
Rodney