Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 16:07:37 -0600 From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) Subject: Re: Netgear R6300 doesn't block LAN for connected Netgear EX7000 extender? Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking References: User-Agent: tin/2.4.2-20171224 ("Lochhead") (UNIX) (Linux/5.2.18-100.fc29.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 16:07:37 -0600 Lines: 37 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.103.224.66 X-Trace: sv3-3QJqFRIp1cL6twW8S3IshYmK0RdHUTQ4Bszt7gPcBbxZh686UnaOkaqzWILTFPCq5M8ZtW2AKX6y5QE!C8R/qrxGry06RHy8g8Os5YADE7DxDFnq0IOGu3jVx+8EHeq59i7YfjR47vL0CfmLh6xQhB85kZ78!3ix9VR0+7juzwdfqxhiYr2irNzwSf7Q= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2789 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking:162 Grant Taylor 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. -- "The little ant at its hole is full of courage." --African Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )