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Network switch selection for VLAN design
I currently have an unmanaged network consisting of a 24 port switch, 3 - 8 port switches, a Netgear RS series router and a cable company supplied modem. Several IOT devices reside on this network, ...
P.S. Stephan,
I am curious, does my wireless router use a VLAN behind the scenes to isolated the guest wireless network from the rest of my network
am curious, does my wireless router use a VLAN behind the scenes to isolated the guest wireless network from the rest of my network
Nothing the like is documented officially for the Netgear Nighthawk RS routers - different from Netgear Orbi mesh systems.
Then how does it Isolate the current wireless guest network from the non-guest wireless network and wired ethernet. Both the documentation and my testing support that isolation. I have an RS600
Internal L2/L3 filtering. No dedicated VLAN
involved apparently.
Similar on the mesh enabled Orbi Mesh router and satellites, except that there are some VLANs guest (and probably IoT) - I'm not to deep in the Netgear consumer devices anymore.
Then how does it Isolate the current wireless guest network from the non-guest wireless network and wired ethernet. Both the documentation and my testing support that isolation. I have an RS600
It already knows what devices are connected to guest, and what is connected to ethernet. So it doesn't need a VLAN to keep them separate.
As I said, a VLAN can be used, but with a single router, there are other options (L2 filtering as schumaku says).
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