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Vandergraff
Apprentice
Dec 22, 2019

disabling LAN ports on on RBS50

I am trying to disable the LAN ports on an RBS50 and following instructions here   https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/DISABLE-LAN-PORTS-ON-RBS50/m-p/1719465#M55199   That is: ----------------...
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Vandergraff
Apprentice
Dec 28, 2019
FURRYe38 wrote:

Disabling ports on the RBS is not supported. Thus why you see the config error when you try to apply the change. 

Why not? Seems a strange decision given that the Orbi Outdoor Satellite (RBS50Y) has no Ethernet ports (for somewhat obvious security reasons).

 

The RBS50Y seems functionally very similar to the RBS50

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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 28, 2019
The RBS50Y has no physical ethernet port to disable.
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    Vandergraff
    Apprentice
    Dec 28, 2019
    CrimpOn wrote:
    The RBS50Y has no physical ethernet port to disable.

    Understood - but why not allow the functionally similar RBS50 to turn off the Ethernet ports?