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  • Netgear R6300 doesn't block LAN for connected Netgear EX7000 extend

    From Ant@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Sat Feb 8 16:07:37 2020
    Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
    On 2/8/20 12:52 AM, Ant wrote:
    Hello.

    I have my Netgear EX7000 extender connect to my old Netgear R6300 v1.0 router's secured guest WAPs. I also have the router to not let guests access My Local Network for internal security from guest users.

    When connected with extender, my wireless devices can access my LAN
    devices including the router. If I power off the extender, my wireless devices connect to my router's guest WAPs and can't access my local network.

    Both hardwares have the (lat/new)est stock firmwares. Did I miss
    something? What's going on? :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    My best guess is that you are using some sort of isolation feature on
    the AP / router that prevents the guests from accessing the LAN and that
    this same feature isn't being used on the extender. Or that the
    extender is itself joining as a normal device to the main AP / router
    and allowing the extenders clients to appear as normal clients to the AP
    / router.

    Is there a way to check? I noticed the extender uses virtual MAC
    addresses for connected wireless devices. https://s19.directupload.net/images/200208/z4s34gpn.gif for my
    extender's connected devices if they help at all.
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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Ant on Sat Feb 8 14:28:36 2020
    On 2/8/20 12:52 AM, Ant wrote:
    Hello.

    I have my Netgear EX7000 extender connect to my old Netgear R6300 v1.0 router's secured guest WAPs. I also have the router to not let guests
    access My Local Network for internal security from guest users.

    When connected with extender, my wireless devices can access my LAN
    devices including the router. If I power off the extender, my wireless devices connect to my router's guest WAPs and can't access my local
    network.

    Both hardwares have the (lat/new)est stock firmwares. Did I miss
    something? What's going on? :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

    My best guess is that you are using some sort of isolation feature on
    the AP / router that prevents the guests from accessing the LAN and that
    this same feature isn't being used on the extender. Or that the
    extender is itself joining as a normal device to the main AP / router
    and allowing the extenders clients to appear as normal clients to the AP
    / router.



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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Ant on Sun Feb 9 14:06:24 2020
    On 2/8/20 3:07 PM, Ant wrote:
    Is there a way to check? I noticed the extender uses virtual MAC
    addresses for connected wireless devices.

    I don't know.

    I'd suggest a Netgear support forum might be better able to answer your questions.



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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Sun Feb 9 17:42:07 2020
    Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
    On 2/8/20 3:07 PM, Ant wrote:
    Is there a way to check? I noticed the extender uses virtual MAC
    addresses for connected wireless devices.

    I don't know.

    I'd suggest a Netgear support forum might be better able to answer your questions.

    Yeah, I did in https://community.netgear.com/t5/WiFi-Range-Extenders-Nighthawk/Netgear-R6300-doesn-t-block-LAN-for-connected-Netgear-EX7000/td-p/1859000. :(
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