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R7000P Guest Network and Printer with Allow guests to see each other and access my local network off
A couple of question about the guest network on R7000P.
One. if I set advanced options for the router, i.e., turning off UPnP. Will this also be turned off for the guest networks?
Two. If I turn off/deselect Allow guests to see each other and access my local network, is there any way I can have a PC on the guest network configure/use/communicate with a printer?
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> One. if I set advanced options for the router, i.e., turning off UPnP.
> Will this also be turned off for the guest networks?UPnP is a global feature, unrelated to the firewall-like rules used
to implement a guest network.> Two. If I turn off/deselect Allow guests to see each other and access
> my local network, is there any way I can have a PC on the guest network
> configure/use/communicate with a printer?"a printer" on your LAN? I'd say that "[not] allow guests to [...]
access my local network" pretty explicitly answers that one.What, exactly, are you trying to achieve?
I have a lot of iot devices, some which require ethernet, and just a couple of pc's and a printer. I was thinking it would be nice if I could put my pcs and printer on the guest network and everything else on the primary network. However, if I do this, it seems that I could not print from my pcs with the isolation option selected. I was looking for some way to set this up.
> [...] I was thinking it would be nice [...]
Not an actual goal. _Why_ would that "be nice"?
> [...] guest network [...] primary network. [...]
It's really one network, with some optional firewall-like rules to
restrict communication involving "guest" clients. If you want
unrestricted communication with some device, then you don't want it to
be a "guest", and you don't want the device with which it communicates
to be a guest. Or you _do_ want that "Allow guests" option.> [...] I was looking for some way to set this up.
Exactly what "this" is remains a mystery. "I want these devices
separate, but I want them to be able to communicate"? At least one of
us is confused.