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Android Apps cannot reach IoT devices
I just installed Orbi Pro Wifi 6. I have enabled all 4 SSIDs (default, employees, IoT, guest) and have setup devices in each. Pulling my hair out trying to get everything working. I am having the fo...
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Port 3 is IoT VLAN Profile with Access set not Trunk.
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Port 3 is IoT VLAN Profile with Access set not Trunk.
If wireless Android phone can discover wired IoT devices in the same VLAN profile but not able to discover in different VLAN profile. It could be:
(1) Isolation features in VLAN profiles are on
(2) IoT devices use mDNS protocol that cannot support inter-device communication across subnets
If you know you hit (2), see if you want to try trial firmware that support mDNS communcation across subnet.
BruceGuo wrote:If you know you hit (2), see if you want to try trial firmware that support mDNS communcation across subnet.
Congrats for making it happen - a mandatory feature for the intended design and usage 8-)! Version number and availability please. Last Pro WiFi 6 firmware on the Orbi Pro (Beta) forum section dates from end of February 2021.
I had to remove network and client isolation on the IoT network. This seems counter to its purpose, though. I thought the whole purpose of an IoT VLAN was to keep devices from being used to attack other devices on the VLAN and other VLANs.
ShannonC wrote:I had to remove network and client isolation on the IoT network. This seems counter to its purpose, though.
if you need having local wireless devices talking to wireless IoT this is obviously prohibiting. Light switches and actuators might have certain problems under these conditions just to mention a very simple IoT use case. 8-)
ShannonC wrote:I thought the whole purpose of an IoT VLAN was to keep devices from being used to attack other devices on the VLAN and other VLANs.
As long as each IoT works on it's own, and only talking to the Internet of course one can do this. Reality is very different from the many security theories learnt on the net, by universities, and elsewhere....
Resolved: Port 3 IoT set to Access from Trunk. That was one of my problems, now resolved. Thank you!
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