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Orbi RBR750 Wifi Guestnetwork and VLAN.
Hi, Does anyone know how the Wifi Guestnetwork works in the Orbi sytem? Does it have its own VLAN ID or does it work another way? I recently installed a RBR750 Orbi router (AX4200) with two Satel...
Well, I am 99.9% certain that Orbi routers have no VLAN capability with the exception of the provision for IPTV, and that is a method to bypass the routers NAT facility for IPTV's.
Perhaps the 750 product is different from my old RBR50. On my Orbi, the guest WiFi network can be set up to (a) Allow Guests to see each other and access the local network, or (b) Guests cannot see each other and cannot access the local network. This options appears to be available only when the Orbi is in router mode. (In AP mode, every packet goes "upstream" to the primary router and the Orbi has no ability to restrict guest access.
Although I do not personally feel that way*, I can understand that others want to isolate IoT devices. In that case keeping them from accessing the primary network makes sense. What is the point of not allowing devices on the primary network to access those IoT devices?
* I wonder how the smart switch that turns my christmas lights on and off is going to compromise my house. It has no camera or microphone. It has no web server. It accepts zero connections from anywhere. Some of them are able to respond to ICMP (ping), which has been useful to me.
LAN to IOT or IOT to LAN is not the isue. I'd like the IOT's to be isolated from the LAN. I thought I could use the VLAN in the switches for that. But then my Guest-network is not working anymore on the Sat's. I still don't understand why and can't figure it out because the options in the GUI are very limited (f.i. the options you mention are not available).
You might want to post abot this over in the LAN Switch forum and see if there is some configuration help needed on the switches your using:
