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Guest Network Technical Explanation
I currently have my R6900P router configured with both 2G/5G LANs as well as 2G-Guest/5G-Guest LANs. I use the 2G/5G guest LANs for my IOT devices such as treadmill, lights and for any friends that ...
The guest network still works off the current bands that are being broadcasted but is Isolated via the firmware in the router from the main networks.
DarrenM
Thank for your response. Are there any technical documents that explain how this is separated in firmware?
Batman-15 wrote:Thank for your response. Are there any technical documents that explain how this is separated in firmware?
Not that I know of, but Guest network is a bunch of Linux iptables rules to separate it. There's no VLANs involved
