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It would be great if you could improve the guest wifi capabilities, at least giving the option of complete network segmentation for guest networks on your routers. Visitors, and untrusted devices (e....
randomousity wrote:
It would be great if you could improve the guest wifi capabilities, at least giving the option of complete network segmentation for guest networks on your routers. Visitors, and untrusted devices (e.g., IoT devices) should be able to connect to a separate SSID, on a (separate) VLAN (or other logical segmentation), so that guest devices can't discover, communicate with, or sniff traffic from, devices on the trusted SSID, except as explicitly permitted through user-created rules. Ideally, VLAN management should also extend to the ethernet ports on the router and satellites, so that wired devices can also be segmented out to the untrusted VLAN (e.g., wired IoT devices).
I agree completly!! With more and more IoT devices on the scene separate SSID, segmentation of both wired and wireless would to my mind be essential security. It would also be good to virtualize the MAC address for each of the segmented LANs. That would put another layer of security and control over all the stuff that wants to get online these days.
randomousity wrote the original post about a year ago and Netgear is still stuck in the mud.
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PS: does anybody know of any under $500 wireless routers that provide for these features?