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Ta-te
Dec 27, 2025Follower
Nighthawk RS100 vs RS300 - IoT devices
Hello! My goal is to have all of my IoT devices on a separate network. I've been googling and searching on this forum on whether or not nighthawk RS100 or RS300 can set up IoT devices on a separ...
CrimpOn
Dec 29, 2025Guru - Experienced User
FURRYe38 wrote:GN is exposed to the WAN side internet and not behind the firewall
It is not obvious (to me) how a person could validate that assertion.
- Guest devices are still part of the Network Address Translation (NAT) process, and appear to have the same public IP address as every device connected to the router.
- Supposing that someone could infer which NAT "port" relates to a specific device on the Guest network,