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Re: Orbi RBR750 Wifi Guestnetwork and VLAN.
Hi G4Net, I was FW/SW engineer focus on protocols on L2/L2 management switch development and switched to WiFi AP design 20 years ago. My wild guess/$2c about the truth behind why you are s...
David_Ch strongly doubt, and fully disagree.
The Wireless Guest network isolation (a network that does only exist on the Orbi devices, Wi-Fi network!) is ä implemented on the proprietary Orbi consumer systems is purely a clever L2 filtering, not magically hiding some L3 VLAN tagging. This would have been unveiled over the any years the Netgear Orbi systems, abd a workaround would have been published long before.
The only area where VLANs are used is on the WAN (Internet) adapter, to implement a simple VLAN bridge to eg. one or multiple ports to connect some IP TV media boxes.