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It would be helpful if the SRK80 router supported defining firewall rules between VLANs. This would enable administrators to allow limited access to devices in other VLANs, more precisely than "Network Isolation" on (completely closed) or off (completely open).
A common use case of this feature would be to place IoT devices such as Chromecasts on an IoT VLAN and allow personal devices such as smartphones to control these IoT devices from a personal VLAN, withouth allowing IoT devices to access the personal VLAN. An example of this use-case is illustrated in OpenWRT which is already what the Orbi Pro Wifi 6 firmware is based on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvniZs8q3eU&t=310s
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Thank you for your inputs.
Are you looking more for "static route" feature or mDNS service gateways ?
I'm not looking for static routes, nor mDNS service gateways, although the latter is useful for inter-VLAN Chromecasting, and is already implemented as of beta firmware v3.2.5.778.
What I'm looking for is the ability to forward traffic between zones, where the zones are associated with VLAN, e.g. devices on my personal VLAN can open connections to devices on my IoT VLAN, but devices on my IoT VLAN can not open connections to devices on my personal VLAN, although they can reply to requests made from devices on my personal VLAN.
This setup is described in the YouTube video I linked to in my original post.I second this feature request. I own this pro model, but I should have defined my requirements before I bought it. I expect more advanced features from a pro model. I believe it should compete feature for feature with the UniFi Dream Machine Pro. See https://youtu.be/ufJ3dPAgFiM.
I just bought an SXR30 and am disappointed that I don't have this feature either. I may need to ditch it and go with another solution. I was not aware of this before purchasing. I assumed that since it supports VLANs it would support this feature as well.
- Status changed:New IdeatoEngineering Investigation
We are Investigating this feature.
Thank you,
Harsha
+1 this feature is essential for vlans.
Over a year Later No Action
My Guess Is It's Never Happening.
Going To return My Units. The Only Feature That Pro Has That I Like Better Than Consumer Is Inter Client CommunicatIon For Iot
I'm also not holding my breath, but they did say it was coming. I've since bought a Firewalls Gold which allows control over VLANs, but it would still be nice to support this out of the box with Orbi Pro.
I am beyond disappointed. I am pissed off. How the hell can these ORBI Pro devices not support Firewall ruling between the VLAN's? How do most people use them without this feature? I have 1 VLAN for Office Devices (Laptops, Printer and NAS). All other Phones, Tablets TV devices and Google Homes are on a different VLAN. Then I have IOT devices (Home Automation with the Raspberry Pi that runs it on, in the IOT VLAN.
Without the Inter VLAN Routing it is impossible for me to have mobile users print to printers in the office VLAN. My Home automation can't transmit messages to the Mobile devices and Google speakers in the other VLAN.
I might as well just toss out all the Netgear kit I just bought and start over.