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Jeffgear
Virtuoso
Oct 07, 2024
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guest WLAN isolation

Hi all

 

Although I use my Guest WLAN for visitors to access the internet, as intended by his feature, I'd like to also use this WLAN for a development Raspberry Pi project I'm working on without creating a vulnerability surface for my primary internal network. However I need to be able to connect from my laptop on the primary WLAN to the Pi on Guest. 

 

The Guest network is 192.168.2.0/24 and the primary one is 192.168.1.0/24.

 

Is there any configuration settings (e.g. forwarding, static routing) that allows me to:

Ping, SSH and establish a web session from the primary network to a device on Guest?

Assign a DHCP reservation to a device on Guest?

 

Thanks

 

  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Oct 07, 2024

    Guest Networks are isolated from the main WLAN for security reasons. Used to have the ability long ago to give access but NG took that away for security reasons. 

     

    I don't believe you can set a IP address reservation on the main side since the GN is a seperate network and the lease times are short for the intended design of short transient connections while on the GN. 

     

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  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru
    Oct 07, 2024

    Guest Networks are isolated from the main WLAN for security reasons. Used to have the ability long ago to give access but NG took that away for security reasons. 

     

    I don't believe you can set a IP address reservation on the main side since the GN is a seperate network and the lease times are short for the intended design of short transient connections while on the GN.