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Orbi Pro 6 - IOT Client Isolation
Hello, I am looking the Orbi Pro 6 for a home use. It is the front runner for a new mesh network because of the 4 SSIDs (one being IoT). I have been looking at the manuals and I see that there ...
Yes, network discovery is verified. I use wireless 3 for my google home devices, set up through the google home app on my smartphone. With network isolation disabled and my iphone connected to wireless 3 I can see all the devices and set them up, and all the google home devices are found by and are controllable by the google home mini.
YMMV but with the google home devices on wireless 3 with client isolation disabled, you have network discovery.
Steve
To question #1, the short answer is yes. It is possible within each SSID to toggle device isolation on/off and allow within that LAN devices to discover and interact with one another. I haven't played enough with the network isolation to determine if it operates one way to two way. Certainly when toggled on, devices on that particular LAN cannot access devices connected on the other LANs. Don't know (but suspect it the case) that being on also prevents devices on other LANs discovering devices on the LAN in question. Will have to check that.
Thanks Steve, but I agree that usually you can toggle the SSID client isolation, but the manual stating they can't see each other on Wireless 3 scares me. And I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars to find out the manual is correct.
Has anyone got devces on IoT to interact on the Pro 6 or any mesh network? Again this is a HOME network with very non techical users who will be adding non-PC devices wirelessly on and off as new devices come out. Trying to not just add them to the 'regular' or employee network.
I can say with confidence that on VLAN 2 all attached devices can see and communicate with one another when I turn off "client isolation" and same for VLAN #4 which is the guest network. I haven't tested this on VLAN #3 (which is default labled IOT) but the settings that control this are EXACTLY the same so will say with a lot of confidence that with client isolation disabled any client attached to any VLAN can see and communicate with any other client attached to that VLAN. So affirm that the answer to your question #1 is yes.
I checked on the network isolation and as I expected it is 2 way. In other words when network isolation is enabled say on VLAN #3 devices on VLAN #3 cannot see devices on VLANs 1,2,4 or 5 and the converse devices on VLANs 1,2,4 and 5 cannot see devices on VLAN #3. Doesn't matter if 1,2,4,5 have network isolation enabled or disabled they cannot see any VLAN where network isolation is enabled.
This folds back to your question "are there firewall settings" that might allow this which is well beyond my Orbi Pro WiFi 6 expertise at this point.
Thanks Steven.
Has anyone accually verified that client isolation can be disabled on Wireless 3/IoT?
The fact that is says it can't in the manual makes me want to accuallty see it work, instead of hoping it is like the other SSIDs, which have no such comment in the manual.
Netgear techs? Any insight?
Yes, network discovery is verified. I use wireless 3 for my google home devices, set up through the google home app on my smartphone. With network isolation disabled and my iphone connected to wireless 3 I can see all the devices and set them up, and all the google home devices are found by and are controllable by the google home mini.
YMMV but with the google home devices on wireless 3 with client isolation disabled, you have network discovery.
Steve
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