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R7450 AP Mode Stop Guest access LAN
I am new to AP Mode I have a R7450 router and have placed it into AP mode. I connected the WAN RJ45 to a LAN RJ45 on another Netgear Router (This is the one that is in normal router mode that actua...
Beg to disagree. This configuration will prevent devices on the R7450 Guest WiFi from communicating with devices on the R7450 primary network.
However, it will not prevent devices on the R7450 Guest WiFi from communicating with devices on the R6350 primary network.
Suppose the R6350 LAN is subnet 192.168.1.x (the default) and assigns 192.168.1.n to the WAN port on the R7450.
The R7450 LAN must be different. The typical default for Netgear routers is 10.0.0.x.
Suppose a device on the R7450 Guest WiFi attempts to 'ping' any IP in 192.168.1.x. The R7450 will say, "not on my LAN. Send this out the WAN port."
The WAN port will say, "hmmm. That's on the same LAN subnet as I am. Use ARP to find the MAC address and send it there."
This will solve half the problem.
I have an RBR750 in router mode connected to the primary RBR50. The LAN is 192.168.1.x
The RBR750 LAN is 10.0.0.x and the RBR750 Guest WiFi LAN is 192.168.2.x
Devices on both the RBR750 primary LAN and on the RBR750 Guest WiFi LAN can ping devices on the RBR50 primary LAN.
Enjoyed the experiment.
This configuration can be set to keep any device on the R7450 LAN (primary or guest) from communicating with devices on the R6350 Guest WiFi LAN, but the objective is to keep them from communicating with the primary LAN.
Only a mesh WiFi system will do this.