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Unable to Use Guest Wifi in AP Mode and a Switched Wired Backhaul
Hi, Summary: Need a solution to run a Guest Network on a Orbi 970 Wifi 7 system in AP mode with a switched and wired backhaul I have a Firewalla Gold Pro router feeding internet into a Netgea...
Quazimodo wrote:
Does anyone have a resolution for running a Guest Network on a Orbi 970 Wifi 7 system in AP mode with wired backhaul? Is there a way to use VLAN instead of having the Guest Network run a DHCP server?
Could you please confirm exactly how the router and satellites are connected.
i.e.
- The RBE971 router WAN port is connected to the Firewalla Gold, not to the 10GB Ethernet switch.
- The RBE971 router 10GB LAN port is connected to the 10GB switch.
- The two RBE970 satellites are connected to the 10GB switch.
Not sure what this does change on the effective problem. Netgear has an obvious design and implementation flaw, raises wrong expectations on what does make up the supported and documented wired backhaul - regardless if we're facing router or AP opertion mode. From my Netgear SMB networking view: Simply a poorly QA and beta tested my friend. So obvious ... .
Regards,
-Kurt.