Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!1.us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: VanguardLH Newsgroups: alt.comp.networking.routers,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking Subject: Re: Network cables to guest network like wireless on Netgear R6300 v1 router? Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 15:04:14 -0500 Organization: Usenet Elder Lines: 35 Sender: VanguardLH <> Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net SAs2hWtMALkzotwvJzHWwAZ6BmB5RRvM5KAUyNA4NWUm12VNLN Keywords: VanguardLH VLH811 Cancel-Lock: sha1:L17RMP6RZ+S4kzJP11WYrFCXlms= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.41 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.networking.routers:2084 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking:136 Ant wrote: > In alt.comp.networking.routers VanguardLH wrote: >> Ant wrote: > >>> Is it possible to have network cables connect to guest network like >>> wireless connections on an updated Netgear R6300 v1 router? If so, then >>> how? > >> Not sure what you are asking. Do you want to chain routers together? >> Cables don't connect to networks. They connect devices. "... cables >> connect to guest network ...". Guest network WHAT? Another router? A >> switch? A gateway? > > Like wireless guest AP for guests to join, but with network cables. I > want to keep the network separated for network cable users. Does the router let you subnet its port and wifi connects? It does subnetting, it may also provide a choice if the subnet is private or shared. Another possibility are the virtual networks that Char mentioned -- oops just read your reply and your router doesn't do VLANs so it probably doesn't do subnetting, either. The router has its own subnet mask specified but I'm talking about putting ports and wifi into their own subnets (aka segments). I haven't played with enough wifi routers to know if some routers let you subnet them differently than subnets for the wired ports. I had a DLink ages ago (it died from heat after a little over 2 years) that let me isolate each wired port. Didn't even have to bother with subnetting which probably means it was a feature of the router's built-in firewall. I missed that feature when I had to replace with a Linksys. Just because the family shared the router didn't mean I wanted their traffic on my network [subnet]. Basically it looked like 4 routers similarly configured for each wired network. Didn't see a similar firewall feature in the manual to which you linked.