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Apprentice

Jun 17, 2020

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SRS60 Device Access Control

SRR60 and 7 satellites (5 wired, 2 wireless) Hi all, Is it possible to control device access per satellite? For example, I have a satellite in a basement that has 3 devices physically plu...

DaneA
Jul 05, 2020
BooJangles,

As far as I have check the Orbi Pro user manual here, it seems that there is no option to control device access per satellite.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

DaneA

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jun 18, 2020

BooJangles,

You may configure a MAC ACL (Access Control List) to prevent the specific laptop to connect to the SSID. To know how to configure this, kindly read pages 48-53 of the Orbi Pro user manual here.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

BooJangles
Apprentice
Jun 30, 2020
Thanks for that info.

Is there a way to control device access per satellite instead of the entire network though?

Thanks
- DaneA
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Jul 05, 2020
  BooJangles,
  
  As far as I have check the Orbi Pro user manual here, it seems that there is no option to control device access per satellite.
  
  Regards,
  
  DaneA
  
  NETGEAR Community Team
  - schumaku
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jul 05, 2020
    DaneA wrote:
    As far as I have check the Orbi Pro user manual here, it seems that there is no option to control device access per satellite.
    And this makes perfect sense - this would require a lot of overhead and modifications of the radio firmware to become able to answer with "custom" 802.1k neighbor reports - one of the key features on all Mesh system designs - based on the MAC (BSSID) of the client where only MAC (BSSID) of neighbouring access points are reported - depending on the MAC allow resp. MAC deny lists on each individual access point.